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Post by docone31 on Jul 7, 2005 21:17:49 GMT -5
Ralph and Muffy are busy playing with a very large locust, compliments of the University of Floriduh!
In one of their breeding programs, they developed a locust that was supposed to interbreed with a local species and produce sterile eggs.
OOPSIE! Just like the Love Bug, OOPSIE!, we now have a very large locust that can devour a plant by itself in one day. One got into the house and the Bengals are having a ball. They are a little afraid of it. I would guess it is about five or six inches in length.
Muffy, the brave one, and Ralph, the chicken, Muffy is batting the locust, and Ralph is watching. He sits down once in a while and crys and licks his back leg but otherwise he lets Muffy do the batting.
It doesn't seem to be hurting the locust and it is walking around my living room floor. It is too big to pick up. The back legs are sharp, and so are its mouth.
Gads, Pygmy rattlers in the walls, laying eggs, locusts walking around the floor, rednecks shooting fireworks and they are falling on the roof, drunks parking their pickup trucks in the driveway, front yards, and sometimes in the middle of the street, pitbulls knocking over the garbage, children throwing rocks at passing cars, Bill the survivor shooting his cannon late at night, Larry the nitwit sitting on his roof with a crossbow.
Floriduh, the land of pitbulls, rednecks, pickup trucks, and genetically altered insects. Don't forget the herpetologist who let two mated pair of Black Mambas loose in the northern everglades. Oh yes, the Komodo dragons that have colonized down in Ft. Myers.
Ralph and Muffy are having a ball, Jenne is bugging me to get rid of it.
Whats a person to do?
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Post by Cher on Jul 7, 2005 21:50:22 GMT -5
Ewwwww Thanks Doc for reminding me of one of the reasons it's good to live in Minnesota. We might have giant mosquitos but so far they are harmless irritants. Komodo dragons? I thought they were like from Indonesia or something? LOL I know they are good swimmers but can't believe they'd make it across the big pond.
Cher
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Post by docone31 on Jul 7, 2005 22:11:44 GMT -5
Cher, there are a bunch of yuppies that had them brought here as hatchlings. Apparently they thought they might just be different pets. One was hanging around a golf course in Ft. Myers for quite a while. One day, he caught a golfer. That made the news and the bambiests had him relocated to the everglades. Well, the Komodo Dragon met something compatible and he bred. Now there are colonies, just like the Iguana colonies that overran an island down here. They got so bad, and agressive they had to be removed, and they did not co operate. Some tree hugger got involved, and they could not remove all of them, and they quickly over ran the island again.
The love bugs just breed. They were developed to eat an insect down here, they just bred. The love bug has some kind of irritant on its exoskeleton and touching one produces a rash. Windshields are littered with hundreds of them on a simple trip. They have no natural enemies and the grass where they fall to when they die, turns brown where they lay.
Paradise has its price.
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Post by cookie3rocks on Jul 7, 2005 22:33:04 GMT -5
Hi Doc, That all bites sooo bad. I'm glad the bengals have something to play with, it's just unfortunate that they can't despose of them all. The poor creatures didn't ask to be here, that's what saddens me. Maybe you and Jenne should cosider moving to Helen GA. The same tourists and red necks, but we have tree huggers and no 6 inch locusts or kimono dragons. Or Black Mambas. Just the occasional bear. Tourist with jewelry that needs to be repaired and more money than sense. Kinda like Florida, minus the above mentioned critters.  cookie |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 7, 2005 23:07:47 GMT -5
do they make a funny sound in their throat when they have prey in site doc? i had a bird fly in one day with the cats. it was a disaster. cats knocking things over and leaping all around, bird flying everywhere pooping. i just grabbed a broom and started whacking everywhere. bird flew out and cats flew somewhere. mom goes crazy everybody runs lol.
kim
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Post by Tweetiepy on Jul 8, 2005 7:20:30 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone remembers the documentary that they had about the Cane Toads in Australia to kill off the sugar cane bug - well it didn't eat the pest and turned into a pest in itself as nothing can eat it because it's skin excretes a poison that kills it's predators and irritates humans that touch it. Now they overrun the place. Well the scene I remember is someone driving down the street and slipping & sliding all over the place because of the frogs on the road (dead & alive) it was disgusting. Sometimes science does not take these things into consideration when trying to get rid of one species
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Post by stefan on Jul 8, 2005 11:49:37 GMT -5
Hey doc do the still have the pirahnas in the canals? they don't call it floriduh for nothing!
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Post by docone31 on Jul 8, 2005 16:04:42 GMT -5
A dumb ass put snake head fish in the everglades, they do have pirhannas, and the crododile has been mating with the dragons.
Yee Hah!
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Post by Debs on Jul 8, 2005 16:51:40 GMT -5
That's kind of a unique animal kingdom you have going on down there doc! ;D What does a snake head fish do? I've seen pics of them and they are one ugly fish! Kind of like they put some kind of asian fish in the mississippi for some reason. Now they are out of control and eating up all the good sporting fish. Now they have to spend thousands of dollars to build barriers to contain them in order to get rid of them. Geez...go figure??? Still rather be living in the field of dreams state than florida. Nice to visit and site see, but glad it's not home for me.
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Post by docone31 on Jul 8, 2005 18:25:02 GMT -5
You ought to see the locals. It is a state law that no individual who is not in government can lawfully posses an IQ greater than 68.
Look at it this way. A physician graduates top of his class. Where would he go to practice? Top dollar and recquirements are New York, Chicago, Seattle. Lowest pay scale is in Floriduh.
So, does a top graduating, Suma Cum Laude physician go to Foriduh, or where the money goes? It goes down from there.
Snake head fish, without natural predators can grow up to 600lbs. Oh, what fun fishing.
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Post by Debs on Jul 8, 2005 19:19:38 GMT -5
OMG DOC! Is that snake head fish still lurking through the florida waterways? Wow! What a thought. Dang, I thought it was kind of scary when I went scuba diving in crystal river with the manatees. We were told to stay away from the canels. I did have a fun time swimming with them and touching them. They are such gentle creatures compared to alot of other things in that water. My partner and I were constantly on the lookout!
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Post by docone31 on Jul 9, 2005 20:14:11 GMT -5
Snake head fish are nothing, here we have Geezers!!!! Coming home from the shop today, we watched Geezers with hats, driving Fords, running red lights and t-boning cars!
The hurricane is 215 miles off shore, with no indication of any weather other than rain here. Everybody is panicing. A Yuppie ran over his 3 year old son today evacuating from a city on the other coast.
All it is, is a storm. I built my house to handle up to category 5 winds, and rain. I have dry goods and propane. I do not have to run any red lights, children because an hurricane is way off shore.
I am over it.
An IQ of 68 means an individual can actually dress himself without constant assistance and supervision. I will maintain a closet IQ, act dumb, and even stop for red lights. I have no intention of running over anyone because there is an hurricane a long way away.
At least we are sane. Except for Mark.
I see the Electricals have smote him. He should get Andy to bail him out.
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