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Post by Cher on Jul 13, 2006 11:13:27 GMT -5
Can anyone give me an idea of what this bug is. Sorry the pic isn't that good, my daughter took it with her cell phone.  |
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Post by akansan on Jul 13, 2006 11:19:46 GMT -5
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Post by xenaswolf on Jul 13, 2006 11:19:54 GMT -5
That is a locust or at least what we call them when I lived in Texas
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Post by pho on Jul 13, 2006 11:21:43 GMT -5
and they won't bite ya either.....just makes a lot of noise and scares ya to death if it should land on you....but they are friendly....not to worry about them.
Pho
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Post by Cher on Jul 13, 2006 11:22:09 GMT -5
I thought it might be a cicada too but wasn't sure. It stung one of the guys where my daughter works and his arm is swelling up like crazy. I read that cicada's don't bite but it didn't say anything about stinging if they are pestered enough.
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Post by blarneystone on Jul 13, 2006 11:26:43 GMT -5
Yep - That's what we call 'em. Some species stay in larval form for 7 years living in the soil until they all come out at once, shed their larval exoskeleton and try to find mates. I remember when I was a kid they were so loud in the summer you couldn't hear yourself think! (we used terrorize the girls with the empty exoskeletons)  ...lol... |
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Post by hermatite on Jul 13, 2006 11:28:38 GMT -5
since I saw that photo while eating lunch, I'd say it is an "unintended diet plan"....ick...ICK
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Post by akansan on Jul 13, 2006 11:29:16 GMT -5
Well, if it stung him, then it wasn't a cicada (locust). They don't sting or bite.
There's a cicada killer wasp, but it has a noticeable stinger like any wasp. It's wings are also only the same length as the body, not longer.
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jul 13, 2006 11:30:13 GMT -5
Wow! I've never heard of anyone being stung or bitten by one! We used to play with the darn things...we would pick them up and hold them in our hands to listen to the buzzing sound they make...
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Post by stefan on Jul 13, 2006 12:20:28 GMT -5
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 13, 2006 12:49:48 GMT -5
it's a cicada cher but they don't sting. could something else have stung him while he was focused on the cicada?
there shells are great to hang on someone else's shirt and watch them go crazy trying to get it off.
kim
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Post by gaetzchamp on Jul 13, 2006 13:30:04 GMT -5
Cicada all the way. Never heard of them causing any harm to anyone though.
gaeter
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Post by docone31 on Jul 13, 2006 13:40:10 GMT -5
It is an alien DNA modified green horsefly. They have beam traveling machines, and sometimes the insects get mixed with DNA. At the next molt, they turn into human looking insects that mimic humans to drink their blood.
The "sting" is actually the insect implanting eggs into the bloodstream. This generation will live as worms, penetrating the heart valves then fighting for the alpha insect/human who will eat its way out of the body. This becomes the female, and the males are already human shaped. That is how the breed multiplies. The next generation from those offspring become polititians. That is why they get jowls, and talk a lot and say nothing. They are really DNA modified aliens taking over this planet.
They also work with the Electricals.
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Post by Cher on Jul 13, 2006 14:44:20 GMT -5
I'll have to ask my daughter if there's any chance the kid could have gotten stung by something else but I think there were several people there when it happened. She said it looked like it has a long stinger tucked away under it's body. I dunno, I'm just glad they don't live up by me.
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Post by docone31 on Jul 13, 2006 19:29:36 GMT -5
Its kinda on the line of the Darwin finches. Of course, they were instrumental in developing the theory of evolution. Which has basic flaws. It was after all alien DNA that made the changes. After they blew themselves up and produced E.L.E. events, the DNA got all mixed up. Kinda like Super Michael on Halloween H2O. They never died.
With the Global Warming, produced by the Electricals and Aliens, we will see more and more of these aborrations, whose sole purpose is to dominate us, and and use us as food, and incubators for their developing progeny.
Tis a sad state of affairs, indeed. At Woodstock, we never thought this would happen. We thought the aliens would land, elevate us, and we would join the stars. We never ever thought we would be incubators for alien DNA to make polititians.
Egads.
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Post by krazydiamond on Jul 13, 2006 20:01:11 GMT -5
does it have red eyeballs?
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Post by KG1960 on Jul 13, 2006 22:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by Cher on Jul 13, 2006 22:28:00 GMT -5
My daughter said that when it "stung" the kid, he shook his hand and the others could see where it had this tube stuck into his hand. She also found a site that said while it was rare, they have been known to stick a human now and then. LOL I'll pass on that recipe though .... ewwwww!
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Post by Cher on Jul 13, 2006 22:31:48 GMT -5
Oh, no KD, this one doesn't have the red eyeballs.
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Post by docone31 on Jul 13, 2006 22:35:24 GMT -5
That tube, is where the alien worms enter the bloodstream. Whew, this could be an interesting one. I just see the skin falling off slowly, in pieces, the eyes getting multifaceted, gradually antennae beginning to project, then the skin is shed, and an insect like creature emerges, looking like an human.
Then the feeding begins. They like brains....that is how they can read our collective minds. They put a tube in our brains, suck them out, and "digest" our thoughts. Then the Electricals amplify the entire concept, and we worry. That gives the Electricals more energy from us to power their machines of destruction.
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...lol...
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