Holy freaking CRAP that was a HUGE A$$ BUG!

• houndlove Posted : 6/21/2007 1:42:26 PM Insects have 6 legs. Spiders have 8. Other stuff has other amounts of legs. "Bugs" is sort of a general category that encompasses all sorts of multi-legged critters. Though as far as I'm concerned, any more than four legs is entirely too many. I'm not a fan. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 6/21/2007 1:47:47 PM to the untrained eye that might look like a house centipede. in actuality, it is the zanzabar flesh eating centipede. very similar in appearance. i hope you killed it. that is just a hatchling. they can grow to be rather large (12-18") and have been known to carry off small children. the real question is... is that the only one? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• g33 Posted : 6/21/2007 2:03:07 PM ORIGINAL: cyclefiend2000 to the untrained eye that might look like a house centipede. in actuality, it is the zanzabar flesh eating centipede. very similar in appearance. i hope you killed it. that is just a hatchling. they can grow to be rather large (12-18") and have been known to carry off small children. the real question is... is that the only one?   BRADLEY, YOU A$$H0L3!!!!   Seriously your post made me LOL.  Thanks for that.  Glad to hear I am not the only one sufficiently freaked-out-to-hell by that damn bug!  Hubby said that after he killed it, the legs that had separated from the body were still going!!!   Oh and Meilani, I cannot imagine a bug with cahones so big as to rear up like that - I'd have done the same thing you did!!!!  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Luvntzus Posted : 6/21/2007 9:58:40 PM EWWWWW! [] I'm going to have nightmares about that bug!!! Yuuuuck! I feel really sorry for you having to deal with that monstrosity in your house. *Shudder* 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• timsdat Posted : 6/21/2007 10:29:30 PM Soooooooooooo ok, here in good ole Floor-da we get bugs of all sorts sizes and personalities   Have you run into those big flying cockroaches that sound like a transformer shorting out when they take off.  The noise scared the heck out of the pups the first time we saw into one of those.   0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• bluelighting Posted : 6/21/2007 11:09:07 PM That is one ugly bug and I would hate to find one of those things in my house it's bad enough with my phobia with June Bugs. I just couldn't stand seeing something that huge crawling around in the house. My brother told me about those banana spider that would come in every once an while at  his work those things where huge he hated them. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• SeaNymph Posted : 6/21/2007 11:18:09 PM ORIGINAL: cyclefiend2000 to the untrained eye that might look like a house centipede. in actuality, it is the zanzabar flesh eating centipede. very similar in appearance. i hope you killed it. that is just a hatchling. they can grow to be rather large (12-18") and have been known to carry off small children. the real question is... is that the only one?   LMAO!   In any case, that thing is SCARY.  SCARY.  I hate bugs.  My fiance is my official bug killer. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bullymom Posted : 6/21/2007 11:43:30 PM I just remembered...  have ya'll got those crikets around?  I call them cave crikets.  They have HUGE back legs and they can jump up and look you in the eye..   Well, last week, I was giving Maddy her bath, and I looked down to find one sitting beside of me[:'(]  I tried to blow on it and make it go the other way..  Didn't happen, that sucker jumped ON me.  I screamed like someone was killing me!  Justin comes running and about broke his neck over the dogs!  He said what, I pointed and kept saying KILL IT!  He killed it, then yelled at me for scaring HIM.  It jumped on me.  I was the one that was scared!  I am terrified of those things! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bullymom Posted : 6/21/2007 11:45:39 PM See if this worked.  This is what I was talking about. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bullymom Posted : 6/21/2007 11:46:17 PM Didn't work[>:]  Just google Cave Cricket 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• SeaNymph Posted : 6/22/2007 12:21:23 AM Oh, sick.  I googled it.  Gross. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• janet_rose Posted : 6/22/2007 1:00:48 AM Have you run into those big flying cockroaches that sound like a transformer shorting out when they take off. Most cockroaches do not fly, so you may be seeing a beetle.  A lot of folks in Texas mistake the pine beetle for a cockroach.   Flying cockroaches: [linkwww.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html#Q18[/link]>http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html#Q18]www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html#Q18[/link]   Beautiful pictures of North American banana spiders: [linkwww.shadygrovetrainingcenter.com/Wildlife/bannana_spider_photo_gallery.htm%00[/link]>http://www.shadygrovetrainingcenter.com/Wildlife/bannana_spider_photo_gallery.htm%00]www.shadygrovetrainingcenter.com/Wildlife/bannana_spider_photo_gallery.htm%00[/link]   To the best of my recollection I have never screamed in my life, so I find this thread quite amusing.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Sera_J Posted : 6/22/2007 2:12:34 AM I live in Hawaii. We have flying cockeroaches "B52's" as they are affectionately referred to. You will not see me run screaming faster when one of those sum'biches come cruising by. ... well, except if it's a spider. The louder the scream is directly related to the size of the spider. G33 that is the most terrifying thing, ever. *I*C*K* 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• chewbecca Posted : 6/22/2007 8:45:51 AM oh.my.lord. That is what we refer to here as a SEWERPEDE. That is mainly because my fiancee works at the river water treatment plant here and they get them there ALL THE TIME. This thread has me itching and looking under things. Sea creatures and BUGS. Two of the biggest things that give me the freaks. I cannot stand them. I would rather, like bullymom, give up my house to a bug than kill it. I will NOT hear that exoskeleton crunch under my foot or hand. NO WAY. GAH! I just want you to know that now I'm going to be freaking out ALL DAY. I HATE BUGS. HATE THEM. I don't fear that they'll bite me or hurt me (except for stingy bugs, I fear the wrath of those things), I don't want them touching me. It's a fear I cannot explain. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• MissMandy Posted : 6/22/2007 8:53:59 AM I don't want them touching me. It's a fear I cannot explain.     Trust me, no explanation needed. I share the exact same fear with you. In fact, I cannot even bear to feel them through a napkin if I happen to find a disgusting buggy corpse somewhere in my home. I have to find something to 'scoop' them up with so that I don't have to feel them at all. BLECH!! [:'(] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login