Summer rains bring acid-shooting ‘land lobsters’ out of hiding in Texas

AccuWeather ^ | July 23, 2021 | Zackary Rosenthal

[ecomcon]

Yeah we call them potato bugs. They are gross but the chickens eat them like a treat.

[USAF1985]

When I was in Security Police, I was on the ramp one night at King Abdul Aziz Air Base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield in 1990. Watched a HUGE camel spider run up on the lowered ramp of a C-5 and into the cargo bay. Heard five loadmasters yell and run out the front ramp of the aircraft. They didn’t want to go back in, and asked us if we would shoot it.

[MortMan]

Autocorrect are funny!

[EvilCapitalist]

It kind of looks like James Carville.

[bigbob]

They can say what they will about our wonderful four-season northern climate, but we don’t have creepy crawlies that shoot acid! Or red ants, wild pigs, armored possums or anywhere as many slitherins...

[sport]

Your wife was lucky. I seen where people had gotten bit by them. They had bad sores and big. Recluses are nasty boogers.

[sport]

You don’t know what you are missing.

[Openurmind]

lol, that is just funny on so many levels... :)

[Robert DeLong]

Thelyphonida is an arachnid order comprising invertebrates commonly known as whip scorpions or vinegaroons. . They are often called uropygids in the scientific community based on an alternative name for the order, Uropygi (which may then also include the order Schizomida).

[V_TWIN]

Yes it is dangerous down here, not to mention alligators and water moccasins.....

I would HIGHLY recommend all northerners stay put where they are....could be a matter of life and death!

[Magnum44]

[Rebelbase]

Sometimes the best thread titles arrive at the wrong time.

[Magnum44]

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Kewl! Just saw one of our resident Speckled King Snakes. They get the run of the place. Otherwise Copperheads would plague us.

People wondered why I always protect and nurture box turtles (tortoises).

Their eggs are the Speckled King Snake’s favorite food. Maybe we’ll see some Vinegaroons, but we’re probably too far north and east.

[Nateman]

It kind of looks like James Carville.

You are so right!

[Bonemaker]

"...I wonder, was G-d hitting the Honey Mead a little hard that day to create THIS?.."

[DannyTN]

"When I learn of things like this, I wonder, was G-d hitting the Honey Mead a little hard that day to create THIS? ;)"

He created watermelon, so he gets a pass on everything else.

[Clay Moore]

I just imagine Him, late in the day, looking over at his helpers, giving a little smirk, and saying “watch this.” Then a Duckbilled Platypus was formed.

[dfwgator]

[butlerweave]

I was just playing SWG Ledgends and I think I killed some of those ,LOL