Author Topic: Huge evil mutant mosquito (Read 1466 times)

Staga · « **Reply #30 on:** April 22, 2002, 08:00:57 AM »

When talking about insects there's one specie which has always amazed me: Dragonfly.
In some summer evenings in my summer place there's plenty of them in almost all colours of rainbow with nice metallic shine.
It's kinda fun to see them flying around the yard; first straight ahead and then makeing tight 90degree turns. Oh and some of them are BIG

(Sometimes I take my friends with me when I go there; funny to see how some girls run away when dragonfly flies near while we guys are just sitting in terrace drinking beer...)

Here's one, Calopteryx Virgo, i.e. Beautiful Demoiselle:
(Edit: Looks like finnish term "Korento" covers two english terms: Dragonflies and Damselflies. This one belongs to Damselflies)

Eagler · « **Reply #31 on:** April 22, 2002, 08:01:09 AM »

what Leslie said

Those guys and dragonflies are good bugs to have around

Staga · « **Reply #32 on:** April 22, 2002, 08:13:02 AM »

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Originally posted by Animal

Wouldnt a mosquito be much more agile?

Guess it depends power to weight and wingload ratios

Yeager · « **Reply #33 on:** April 22, 2002, 08:53:15 AM »

When I was a kid I used to go on insect killing sprees.

One trick I remember fondly was capturing dragon flies, stuffing them (gently) into the muzzle of my trusty crossman 820 airgun, then shooting them through the screen of the back yard screen door. Poof!

Voss · « **Reply #34 on:** April 22, 2002, 09:03:28 AM »

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Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Voss is a dick!!!

It's better to be a dick, than a dickhead.

I know where they hang out, too, Elfenwolf. Come get a hug from one of them.

I plunder the earth for all it's riches. I take what I want, and kill anything that can fight back. Sometimes, I catch fish just for the pleasure of it, and rather then die veering around squirrels in the road, I run 'em over flat. Damn thing should know there's a road out there, anyway.

I hunt Bambi, too.

Suffer, baby!:cool:

SirLoin · « **Reply #35 on:** April 22, 2002, 09:13:01 AM »

Never wasted time with insects when I was a kid...Frogs were much more fun....Would shove a firecracker down it's throat with a 10 second fuse,ring doorbell and run like hell.

Dawvgrid · « **Reply #36 on:** April 22, 2002, 09:31:10 AM »

LOL it`s pretty comon in Denmark,,Animal.But the girls a scared to death,so when you rescue them from this "beast",you really
are hero of the day.I dont know if these things are common elsewhere, but I have never seen such a large mosquito in my life; and this is a tropical country.

SKurj · « **Reply #37 on:** April 22, 2002, 09:42:40 AM »

Up here the latest craze in environmentally sound bug protection is 'Bat boxes' ya mount them somewhere around the yard and eventually a bat may move in.

A bat eats its own weight in bugs every night.

SKurj

midnight Target · « **Reply #38 on:** April 22, 2002, 10:04:02 AM »

Sandmans little friend is called a Sunspider, or windscorpion (arachnid). Sunspider

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #39 on:** April 22, 2002, 10:24:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Animal

Wouldnt a mosquito be much more agile?
I know dragonflys eat mosquitos, but these things would never be able to catch one.

Yeah, mosquitos are much more agile and can turn like a Zero, but I've seen mosquito hawks use B and Z tatics and fly through a swarm of furballing mosquitos, taking out one or two of them at a time. Of course tjhere's always one or two mosquitos who try to follow the much faster mosquito hawk, and I've watched many a mosquito hawk rope a poor dumb mosquito...Of course the mosquitos think this is a chicken toejam way for the mosquito hawk to fly, and many a time I've heard mosquitos threaten to climb to 30k and B and Z the mosquito hawk, but furballing mosquitos rarely take that much time to climb so high.

Animal, welcome aboard PETA. To prove yourself you have to commit an act of terrorism against Pet Smart. Your assignment is to liberate their tropical fish stocks. Scoop a fish, use their bathroom and flush the fish down the toilet. (Make sure to clean the toilet first). Fish have a natural homing instinct, and I've liberated thousands of goldfish this way and sent them on their way home. Let me know how it goes- brother.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #40 on:** April 22, 2002, 10:54:52 AM »

Hate spiders all you want!!!! The average spider consumption per person and year is 5.

Trivia: Did you know that a "Daddy Long Legs" has enough venom to kill a human, but it's choppers can't open far enough?
They also kill more than 200 mosquitoes, flies, gnats, etc. a night.
NI know it isn't a spider, by the way.

Jay

Bambi tastes good! Better than the "Slaughter house" cows, speaking of PETA.

Boroda · « **Reply #41 on:** April 22, 2002, 12:30:33 PM »

In Russia this harmless insect is called "karamora".

I have heard that it's nothing more then a male mosquito. Male mosquitos do not suck blood, only females do. Think about it.

Russian · « **Reply #42 on:** April 22, 2002, 02:02:26 PM »

Has anyone taking hair spray can and lighter, and had a nice hunting trip for mosquitoes. LOL, that was fun, flame thrower Vs evil blood suckers. I win every time..but at night they win back…and war continues next morning.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #43 on:** April 22, 2002, 02:46:25 PM »

lol... sounds like stuff we... uh.. some guys... did on watch in the Coast Guard to cure boredome... doh

-dead- · « **Reply #44 on:** April 22, 2002, 02:51:27 PM »

Anyone for tennis?