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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Animal on April 21, 2002, 08:37:30 AM
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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.
I found it today on my apartment. It looks all bent and mangled because I sprayed it, but when it was healthy it had the posture of a normal mosquito, except several times larger, with long spiderlike legs.
(http://web.prtc.net/~mjrr/mosquito.jpg)
I put a quarter next to it for comparison. The image looks bad because there was low light and I couldnt use flash, but you get the idea.
I wouldnt want one of these squeakes biting me, now I'm paranoid :eek:
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(http://www.arbovirus.health.nsw.gov.au/areas/arbovirus/mosquit/photos/tipulid.jpg)
"There are several primitive flies that look very similar to mosquitoes and are often the cause of considerable concern by the general public. This is a harmless Crane fly, which belongs to the family Tipulidae."
"Adult does not eat. Larva scavenges on decaying plant matter."
Even that they dont bite, they surely are annoying. They tend to buzz around my room and if i kill one, soon another even bigger will appear. Sometimes they are so big, that they cant fly properly, only buzz around near the floor. Cats like to eat them, so you should get one if you want to get rid of those flies.
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its not a mosquito. we have them in se texas its a type of fly. but it does look just like one and flyes like one. but no bite.
he beat me to it :)
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yeah thats exactly how it looks.
even if they dont bite they are ugly as hell and i want em out of here!
*i need a cat*
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Get a cat Animal. It is hilarious to watch them chase these things around. Just make sure you have no breakables on shelves as the cat will tend to get very focused on it prey to the exclusion of being careful to not run into things.
My cat was chasing one of these things around one day and SMACKED right into the leg of a chair. Poor thing was dizzy for a few minutes.
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I'd like to see your reaction to one of these ambling across your carpet...
(http://entowww.tamu.edu/images/insects/color/sunspidr.jpg)
(http://www.uni-rostock.de/fakult/manafak/biologie/wranik/socotra/pictures/16.6.JPG)
Little miniature land sharks. Once they're full, they just continue killing. Absolutely fearless, I've found a few that when challenged will charge. Of course, this heightened aggression had absolutely no effect and was powerless to stop my boot from crushing it.
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Those are some ugly spiders
In the arid regions of the Dominican Republic there are HUGE hand-sized tarantulas crawling everywhere. you really have to be careful where you put your limbs. And they are VERY aggressive.
As kids, we used to put water on their burrows so that they would come out charging and fight our dogs :)
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Ugliest spider I saw was down in Columbia. It almost killed one of our guys (had to bring in a C-130 to get him out).
I've always thought of turantulas as kinda fuzzy and cute. This spider looked prehistoric and there was absolutely zero cuteness about it. It was about 3" in diameter (letgs included) and had legs like a king crab with harsh corners at the joints.
A group of soldiers didn't want to risk trying to step on it (we weren't afraid!)... so I shot it with a shotgun. It did only take one blast to kill.
The guy bitten by it only ended up loosing the use of two of his fingers... they wanted to amputate them but he wouldn't let them. Now we call him the claw.
I'm told it was a brown recluse... and they are even here in the NorthWest... but I've never seen anything up here to match the spider I saw down there.
AKDejaVu
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Oh.. and Animal...
Don't listen to them. That actually was a mutated bug. It hasn't been widely discussed, but an orange cruise missle containing mosquito mutating enhancing chemicals was lost about 3 weeks ago.
AKDejaVu
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we have them here in Michigan too!
I work outside for a living and see them all the time, what scares me are the mosquitos that have stripes on there wings!
working out side for 6 years and only seeing them in the past 2 years only twice scare the living hell out of me! When they bite it feels like someone is sticking you with a pin in the arm.
mosquitos scard me when they get big and they land on ya, just because they are SO UGLY! and they are out for BLOOD! :eek:
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Never, ever, ever, EVER go to Altamonte Springs (a suburb of Orlando) in late Spring, or early Fall. The mosquitos near R/C World (location of the state championships for precision aerobatics) are large enough to carry off children and smaller females. The din of their wings have been known to cause ardent veterans to turn white with fear and, God forbid should you be too slow in retreating to your car, they can drain every drop of your blood in less than a minute.
I'm not kidding.
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Originally posted by Voss
The mosquitos near R/C World (location of the state championships for precision aerobatics) are large enough to carry off children and smaller females.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Those things are all over here in N. CA. Completely harmless though. and yes, cats see them as toys.
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Got some wierd stuff up here in Pennsylvania, but nothing compared to the "interesting" and overgrown beatle population of MCB Quantico, Va. Having one of those suckers land on you was like getting hit with a baseball bat. :P
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COME ON YOU APES!!! YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER??!?!
(http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0120201/8)
Remember, it's the mosquitos or us! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Daniel
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Hehe CyranoAH, I liked Starship Troopers :)
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where im from we call those galywhoppers. I dont know why we just do:confused:
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Thank God there are no bugs in east Texas.
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Originally posted by superpug1
where im from we call those galywhoppers. I dont know why we just do:confused:
Heh, it's from the old South. "Gallonnippers," so named because it was thought mosquitos that big must take a gallon at a time. Of course, they're not mosquitos at all (as noted above).
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We have those large Crane flys in Yurop too, no panic here, but
one evening i was laying in my bed, and there was this spider at the roof, exactly
over my face! I crawled carefully from the bed, put my rubber boots on, grabbed a
a lighter and hairspray, aimed at the Spider and fire ! The Monster started to burn
and fell behind the bed, he still moved around!
I then took a bottle and squashed the spider. The spider was stuck underside of the
bottle and still moved!
I finally thrown the whole bottle from the window . So much about my love for Spiders,
i HATE them *LOL*
Such situations are always life-threatening for me, a fight for live or death no joke,
full adrenaline rush.
thx god we dont have the bigger monster like Tarantulas here ;)
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I'd like to see your reaction to one of these ambling across your carpet...
(http://entowww.tamu.edu/images/insects/color/sunspidr.jpg)
(http://www.uni-rostock.de/fakult/manafak/biologie/wranik/socotra/pictures/16.6.JPG)
Little miniature land sharks. Once they're full, they just continue killing. Absolutely fearless, I've found a few that when challenged will charge. Of course, this heightened aggression had absolutely no effect and was powerless to stop my boot from crushing it.
Sheeesh, give the bugs a fuggin break! First Animal posts a picture of a bug he used chemical warfare to kill, which, I might add, is forbidden by the Geneva Convention, and then Sand Man starts bragging on the ferocity of the bug HE killed...neglecting to mention that his left shoe alone is as big to that bug as a pyramid is to us, and, in spite of its supposed "ferocity," was the victim of a wanton bug squasher. I hope he stained your carpet.
I respect ALL life rather it's living or not. Such is the credo of PETA, you bunch of murderers. One day all the beasts of the forest will unite against us humans and destroy us as surely as Animal gasses poor skeeter flies and Sand Man does the fandego on potato bugs.
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Originally posted by easymo
Thank God there are no bugs in east Texas.
East Texas is the only place I've seen a cockroach actually ask someone for a cigarette.
AKDejaVu
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Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Sheeesh, give the bugs a fuggin break! First Animal posts a picture of a bug he used chemical warfare to kill, which, I might add, is forbidden by the Geneva Convention, and then Sand Man starts bragging on the ferocity of the bug HE killed...neglecting to mention that his left shoe alone is as big to that bug as a pyramid is to us, and, in spite of its supposed "ferocity," was the victim of a wanton bug squasher. I hope he stained your carpet.
I respect ALL life rather it's living or not. Such is the credo of PETA, you bunch of murderers. One day all the beasts of the forest will unite against us humans and destroy us as surely as Animal gasses poor skeeter flies and Sand Man does the fandego on potato bugs.
I really hope that your kidding or being sarcastic..
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I had a run-in with a Pygmy Rattlesnake the other day. A neighbor called me over to help her get rid of a snake on her porch. It had crawled up on her firewood stack, so I had to remove a few studmuffingots to find it. It had been crawling up the brick facade, but was hiding two layers down when I found it. It immediately began striking at everything that moved, and even though it was only about fifteen inches long, was the most aggresive thing I'd come across in some time. I finally smashed it's head and it let off a snap so loud you probably could have heard it from one-hundred feet.
The scarey thing is, there's a momma snake out there somewhere and as the weather has turned wetter she'll be on the move.
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Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Sheeesh, give the bugs a fuggin break! First Animal posts a picture of a bug he used chemical warfare to kill, which, I might add, is forbidden by the Geneva Convention, and then Sand Man starts bragging on the ferocity of the bug HE killed...neglecting to mention that his left shoe alone is as big to that bug as a pyramid is to us, and, in spite of its supposed "ferocity," was the victim of a wanton bug squasher. I hope he stained your carpet.
I respect ALL life rather it's living or not. Such is the credo of PETA, you bunch of murderers. One day all the beasts of the forest will unite against us humans and destroy us as surely as Animal gasses poor skeeter flies and Sand Man does the fandego on potato bugs.
Just as long as it doesn't enter my home uninvited... then I have to take steps (so to speak). :D
Oh... and THIS is a potato bug:
(http://www.foothill.com/image/potato_bug.gif)
It's not a pest. It's food for the more ferocious creatures lurking under my house.
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Voss is a dick!!! He killed a baby snake thats only crime was it wanted to find a warm, safe, dry place to take a nap. Of COURSE he's going to get aggressive, dunderhead, when you start whacking at him with a piece of firewood!
Voss, it's too bad that snake didn't bite you and you died. How dare you place the comfort of a neighborhood slut against the life of an animal? I hope that little snake's mama bites your cruel murdering bellybutton and your testicles drop off, animal killer.
What the hell is the matter with you people? Do you really think you have the right to just squish every bug, smash every snake you come across? Don't you see how our aggressive tendacies towards animals, plants and other people is so destructive? Please, have more respect for nature. For God's sakes.
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Elfenwood,
I only killed the giant fly because I thought it was a mutant mosquito. A poor victim of genetic engeneering living a tormented life, trying to squeal high enough for me to hear "kill... mee...."
And so, with tears in my eyes, I sprayed wood polish spray on its face.
After I took the pictures, I walked stumbling slowly to my raining backyard. I fell on my knees, raised my arms and looked at the sky, and swore vengeance on science.
Where can I send my PETA application?
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That was a Mosquito Hawk, Animal. They are very beneficial because they eat mosquitos. They are harmless to humans.
Les
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Originally posted by Leslie
That was a Mosquito Hawk, Animal. They are very beneficial because they eat mosquitos. They are harmless to humans.
Les
Wouldnt a mosquito be much more agile?
I know dragonflys eat mosquitos, but these things would never be able to catch one.
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I've often wondered about that myself Animal. We've always called them "mosquito hawks", but it turns out they don't eat mosquitos after all. That's just a common name for them. And they aren't all that beneficial either...they are harmful to grass by feeding on the roots. So, I learned something new today.
Here's a link if you're interested. European Crane Fly (http://www.ent.orst.edu/urban/European%20Crane%Fly.html)
Les
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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 :D
(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)
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what Leslie said
Those guys and dragonflies are good bugs to have around
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Originally posted by Animal
Wouldnt a mosquito be much more agile?
Guess it depends power to weight and wingload ratios :D
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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!
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Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Voss is a dick!!!
It's better to be a dick, than a dickhead. :D
I know where they hang out, too, Elfenwolf. Come get a hug from one of them.:rolleyes:
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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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Sandmans little friend is called a Sunspider, or windscorpion (arachnid). Sunspider (http://entowww.tamu.edu/extension/youth/bug/bug168.html)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :D
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lol... sounds like stuff we... uh.. some guys... did on watch in the Coast Guard to cure boredome... doh
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Anyone for tennis?
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LOL Boroda.. I have a capitalistic twist for yah, based on a similar experience.
One upon a time, almost 30 years back, I had a Wynns route.. for those of you clueless as to what Wynns is, it's an oil additive to decrease engine wear.. kinda like Slick50 before there was Slick50. In any case, up in the great state of maine, this stuff was available at almost every gas station, sitting on lil wire display racks out between the pumps. It sold fer a buck a can.
I'd drive through the towns of southern maine, talking to cranky old down-eastern station operators, refillin the racks and supplying a wide variety of repair shop snake oil stuff, like hand cleaner, fuel treatments, radiator stop-leak and Carburator cleaners.
My distributor made a mistake on a resupply order once.. wound up with 20 cases or aerosol carb cleaner he couldn't move. He gave me a heluva price on it tho, so i took the 20 cases and set out on my route. 4th or 5th stop in that day was a big Ford Dealership in South Portland.
Now, in the springtime up in maine, they get a plauge of these lil tiny black biting flies that fly in clouds.. literally thousands of 'em all wizzin around... and in the big open service dept of this ford dealership was two such clouds.. and i grabbed up a can or the carb cleaner, my trusty ronson lighter and i proceeded to 'iwo-jima' the lil buggers. The mechanics saw THAT and proceeded right over to the parts cage and said.. "gimme some of that wynns carb cleaner toejam... quick!!" The results were spectacular.. no bugs in that shop in 5 min flat; and 2 cases of carb cleaner gone on that stop. By the end of the week; all 20 cases were gone, and i had orders for 12 more...
Thought I had a gold mine till the Agusta Chevy dealership burned to the ground about 3 weeks later.
Oh well.. boom and bust. Thats capatilisim fer yah. ;)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Thought I had a gold mine till the Agusta Chevy dealership burned to the ground about 3 weeks later.
Obviously a suspicious fire started with aerosol carburetor cleaner I bet.
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When I was in the army and we had to go out into the field we'd bring "Skin so Soft" it was like a lotion that smelled really flowery but man the mosquitos wouldn't come near it.
Great stuff.
Kanthy
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Obviously a suspicious fire started with aerosol carburetor cleaner I bet.
Jeeze elfie, no flies on you, enh?
(can't believe yah left me a straight line like that ;))
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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.
yes animal, but what if the mosquito lumbered slowly in on the mosquito hawk's 6 at 30 K? hmmm.... :D
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The crane fly is uber - itll outturn everything below 10 feet. :P Oh.. and this distubed me - "daddy long legs" have enough venom to kill a human but its mouth cant open far enough? Damn.. I used to pull legs off the damned things when I was a kid.. scary - how come they dont tell you this stuff in school?
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ahh yes...the midsummer nights spent in the backyard with a can of insect killer.....(aka poison gas).....and trying to hit flying mosquito swarms with the minimal amount of spray.....that was hard until me and my friend discovered moms hairspray and a lighter lol FWOOOOSSHHH:D
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Hangtime, you still up in the Maine area? I live about 20 minutes from South Portland, and believe me, I know exactly which bugs you're talking about. Wish I'd been there to see that little spectacle.
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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Oh.. and this distubed me - "daddy long legs" have enough venom to kill a human but its mouth cant open far enough? Damn.. I used to pull legs off the damned things when I was a kid.. scary - how come they dont tell you this stuff in school?
'Cause it ain't true....?
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
dh
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Originally posted by Horn
'Cause it ain't true....?
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
dh
What kind of boring school did you go to?
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Originally posted by Hortlund
What kind of boring school did you go to?
Sorry, man. When I graduated, they said I knew everything there was to know. It is why I post here, to share this bounty with you unfortunate, under-educated souls. It's the least I could do.
dh
;)
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Originally posted by Horn
'Cause it ain't true....?
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
dh
I am not sure if its true. On one hand, you link to a page saying it aint. If its on the internet, it has to be true.
On the other, I saw on Discovery Channel that is IS true. If its on TV it has to be true.
:confused:
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Mjollnir
keerist, I bet you get nexta NO six calls on AH voice. :D
Nah.. left maine almost 20 years ago. Had a nice lil place on Sebago Lake, just up past the Sabre Yacht factory off of hawthorne road.. out route 302. Loved it up there... but it was pretty apparent that if yah didn't cut trees, make shoes or have a lobster license yah wuz gonna starve. Yah can't eat the view. :( Hangin out at Scarborough Downs in the pits was fun or friday nights.. resta the time it was fediddlein booooooorrrring as all hell fer me.
Might go back up there someday... I hear it's become a mite more populated. :D
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you ANIMALS..
dissing the crane fly..
when all it wants to do is entertain your cat and...
(http://www3.telus.net/pongo/cranefly.jpg)
catch you fish.
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Originally posted by Animal
I am not sure if its true. On one hand, you link to a page saying it aint. If its on the internet, it has to be true.
On the other, I saw on Discovery Channel that is IS true. If its on TV it has to be true.
:confused:
Since the referenced page was from the University of California Riverside, Department of Entomology, I figured the credentials would stand by themselves; however, I understand your need to believe everything broadcast on the television so please, carry on--if you hurry I think you can still catch that real life drama "Married with Children"............ ;)
dh
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PONGO GIMME !!!!!
but with a white post insteada orange :)
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wolfy..
that is from the orvis online catalog.
if you havent seen it get over there...excellent informantion on 100s and 100s of flies.
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yeah.. I have..
was hoping like crazy that you tied it!!!
Orvis and Umpaqua (sp) are my fav's for store-bought.
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One day...
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hehe same here.
problem is that most of the stuff we use here is like size 20 or so...hard for me to tie parachutes.
nymphs no problem..
dries yech
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I used to tie my own flies for a while, lots of fun. That one doesn't look too hard either.
In the end, though, I started fly fishing for steelhead up near the Oregon coast, and all I needed was a big hook with some red yarn tied to it. I'd lose so many to snags that it was sad to see something that I'd spent time on (well, egg patterns aside) get snagged five feet out of reach on a branch.
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egg patterns.. now those are tough to tie.. lol
gotta love it.
actually , the only prob I have tieing is those damned tiny posts on parachutes...