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I like all bugs.

If I had to pick a favorite, I would probably choose jumping spiders. We have a lot of them around the house and on the porch.

I sometimes push them a little and they hop away, but do it 2 or 3 times and they will invariably turn around and face my finger, standing on their hind legs, claws extended and jaws ready: ready to rumble.

They have that "so what if you're a million times bigger than me, come over here and I'll kick your #$$" attitude.

Potato bugs are just awful...

Clearly the Volkswagen beetle.

OK, not a "bug" per se, but a pretty darn weird cootie just the same:

Distome (Leucochloridium paradoxum)

Sometimes amber snails (Succinea or Oxyloma) can be found, that attract attention by their largely swollen tentacles, laterally striped by pulsating rings. This phenomenon is because of an infection of the snail by a parasitic distome, Leucochloridium paradoxum.

This parasitic worm belongs to the group of flatworms (Plathelminthes), and among these to the distomes (Trematoda, Digenea).

Similar to other flatworms, the development of a distome also passes a change of generations, where one generation infects a snail as intermediate host, and one generation infects a warm-blooded animal, in this case a bird, as final host.

The bird, with its droppings, spreads the distome's eggs, of which hatch the ciliated larvae or miracidia. Those then infect a snail living near the water.

Out of the snail's digestive system, the miracidia wander into the main digestive gland and change into the next larval stage, the cercariae. Those gather in sporocystes, long tubes, that extend into the snail's tentacles. Several hundred cercaries can be contained in one of those sporocyste tubes.

The sporocyste tube is what can be seen pulsating in the snail's tentacles. The tentacles, swollen by the sporocystes, cannot be withdrawn by the snail, but instead attract a bird by their eye-catching colouring and movement. The bird rips off the snail's tentacle, and as a reward, is infected by the cercariae within.

In the bird's digestive system adult distomes evolve from the cercariae, that reproduce sexually and lay eggs, which are then spread by the bird's droppings. The circle is closed.

Oh yeah: and Bedbugs.

We have a lot of these around here.

Mosquito Hawk (aka Crane Fly)

When we were kids they were always welcome because it was common belief that these guys ate mosquitos (but it ain't true,) so we'd also catch one or two and put 'em our tents, or wherever we were.

When I lived on a corn farm, periodically this type of insect would fly into my apartment. It had a long snout to bore into stalks of corn. Completely harmless, but uniquely situated to give me an absolute sense of the creeps. I never figured out why.

I take it you've already seen this: Mantis vs. Hummingbird

The Vinegaroon, a charming resident of New Mexico.

Kissing bug. Feeds on your blood then poops on the wound. Spreads Chagas' disease.

Nixon came to hate these:

Hello? Lightning bugs. They luminesce hypnotically, signalling summer's arrival. They're slow and harmless enough that a toddler can catch 'em.

All time best bug ever.

SD

ANT LION!

Or rolley polley.

Hate the cockroach. Spiders, snakes, frogs, bats--all okay. But a cockroach just reminds me too much of Hillary.

Top 7 Bugs (PVT)

Oh. You mean real bugs. Asin, insects?

I thought this thread was something else.
In my world, PVT means Product Verification Testing.

Back to insects, my favorite is what I call a June Bug. Not sure of the actual name but it looks like this and they're all over the place up here in June and July.

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Rolley Polley.

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