Posted on 08/09/2006 11:44:23 AM PDT by pissant
Ok. Enough news about Joe Lieberman, angry A-Rabs, and kittens around here. It's time to tell us what your favorite bug is and why.
Pissants top 7 are as follows:
7. Potato Bug. The little fellers are like miniature Armadillos and was one you could pick up as a kid without getting bitten or stung.
6. Earwig or Pincher Bug. Those pinchers on their tushes are quite intimidating. And for some reason like to hang out in Dahlias, so beware.
5. Butterfly. They always looked the best tacked to my bug collection corkboard. And were much easier to catch than grasshoppers.
4. Army Ants. These little communists are simply amazing. Putting your arm into an ant hill as a kid was a right of passage.
3. Dung Beetle. Besides being awesome at rolling a turd accross the ground, the name is a useful insult to be tossed around at cocktail parties.
2. Bird Eating Spider. There is nothing cooler than watching a giant spider attack a bird or small rodent.
1. Praying Mantis. This bug has inspired many nightmares in people and is responsible, with the onset of National Geographic photos and TV, for inspiring many loonies to claim they have been abducted by aliens. Any similarity to James Carville is strictly incidental.
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good call. We don't get many in western Wash.
hey TS, are you with Reuters? That second photo appears to have been photoshopped.
The rolley polley is a potato bug up here.
pang(s)
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That could remove a finger.
its the little armored bug with lotsalittle legs that rolls into a ball.
I see, those are ok, I'm talking about another bug. Let me find a pic of it...they're gross.
bugs...WTF???
you telling me there were no articles about hot chicks available...
**shaking my head**
THIS potato bug...
http://www.potatobugs.com/pix/index.html
Apparently, they aren't too common east of the Rockies. I can't picture summer without them.
SD
Finally! LOL
I thought you have some exotic Texas bug to share.
Rolley polleys, or pillbugs are kinda cute...potato bugs are a much different bug.
Sorry. the hits on hot chick threads has petered out since you semi-retired. ;o)
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