Cicada-mania

[wiccanpony]

an added bit of crunch......

Originally posted by supervike
I have had something very close to that at our local fast food Taco place.

I think the bug part was unintentional here, though.....lollollollol

they didn\'t charge you extra for it.....slackers!lol

 

[finn17]

Jean Simmons, eat your heart out

Originally posted by supervike
This nasty little guy has a \"probing\" type tongue that sticks out a full two inches from his body.

My tongue doesn\'t even do that!!

Mind you, I bet he can\'t breathe through his ears:flip:

 

[UncleHex]

Originally posted by finn17
Mind you, I bet he can\'t breathe through his ears:flip:

Actually most insects have no \"ears\" as such. They hear and breathe through several parts of their exoskeleton. So, technically, they do breathe through their ears!

 

[Ebonbuddha]

I wonder if that colour scheme can be duplicated on Tyranids?

Originally posted by Dr. Bob

 

[kittykat23uk]

Since we\'re on the subject of insects. Here is a piccie of a hawk moth I took in on holiday in Dom. Rep. It was huge!

Regards

Kat

 

[vincegamer]

hawk moth

That is fantastic.
It looks as though it has twigs on its wings with proper shading and highlighting and everything. If you\'d have painted it it would have been 10 freehand.

 

[vincegamer]

one more thing about brood X

The smell

That\'s right, with billions of the suckers that only live for 6 weeks at best and mere minutes at worst, the ground gets covered with little rotting corpses and parts of corpses pretty quick and the stench can be overwhelming.

 

[Sand Rat]

That kinda reminds me of a story there Vince - long years ago, when I first went to college (1986), and was living in North Texas, we had the year of the Cricket. For those of you who are not familiar with the common Texas cricket, they are nasty little bastards, who after the weather starts to turn cold in October start looking for a warm place to spend the winter. Well, to make a long story short, the crickets found a way into the building sometime between closing Friday, and opening Monday - after the building had been sprayed for bugs. Needless to say, when the maintenance supervisor got there at 4 am, the ground floor was about two inches deep in dead and dying crickets.

When I went back about 5 years after leaving, the smell was still in the building.

 

[supervike]

This thread is really starting to bug me.lol

 

[Sand Rat]

Ok, this will only make it worse then

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/05/31/10_year_old_finds_blue_eyed_cicada/

 

[Orchid_Noir]

Originally posted by steelcult
Ok, this will only make it worse then

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/05/31/10_year_old_finds_blue_eyed_cicada/

No pix of blue eyes.

 

[wiccanpony]

soooooo sad

17 years growing in the ground and then looking forward to wild sex and dying within weeks...almost as bad, as being a gadfly.....