Posted on 07/25/2021 7:54:23 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The frightening creatures go by various names. Some call them whip-scorpions, while one journalist at the Houston Chronicle called the insect a "land lobster from hell."
The insects are better known as vinegaroons, and despite their hellish appearances, the nocturnal, visually impaired creatures pose relatively little harm to humans. In fact, they are good at killing pests like cockroaches and millipedes.
Brought out of their burrows by heavy rains in and around Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, the approximately three-inch-long vinegaroons are out exploring the desert in search of food and love, according to a Facebook post from the park.
Vinegaroons pose dual threats to those who happen to annoy them. They can use their heavy pincers to pinch and shoot a "well-aimed" concoction of 85% acetic acid (which smells like vinegar) from the base of their whip-like tails.
The spray is not considered to be venomous for people, and vinegaroons aren't all that interested in humans. To catch their prey, vinegaroons use their long, thin front legs to sense vibrations from animals including millipedes, scorpions, crickets and cockroaches.
Vinegaroons can be found across the southern United States and Mexico. Those brave enough to look closely at a vinegaroon might see a female vinegaroon carrying her hatchlings on her back.
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I gotta call him and ask what the name was for them.
Dam, I cant remember anymore.
I like the plumage.
I still remember that episode. Still gives me the creeps, especially the sound those things made.
Please don’t insult ugly creepy crawlies. Car-Vile is way uglier than that bug.
I had a baby copperhead bite mu pinkie finger. Got a bill from the hospital for 60,600. 60,000 for 2 anti-venom shots, & 600 for the hospital room. Fortunately my insurance picked up the vast majority of that bill. 🙂
Looks like a grasshopper got together with a honey bee! Just ewww.
I can’t even imagine how big that thing would have to be to get that reaction. Makes me laugh thinking about it tho.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4k3m07 The Outer Limits ( 1963-65 ) S01E14 - The Zanti Misfits
Lobstercules!
This entire post tripped my trigger! I knew it would and yet clicked on it anyway. WTH is wrong with me? 😖
By coincidence I ended up thinking of the same thing in a thread I started devoted to captioning the Carville Bug. The Episode was called the Misfits. Those ugly things are pretty scary when you're a kid.
See post #74
The laggy ba$tard,
I swear, he needs to be indicted and frog marched right into the Epstein Cell in NYC.
Prediction: He will attend a conference in Beijing and will never return, or he will disappear into the EU into some obscure Swiss or Italian community.
Obungo protects his own during his 3rd term.
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