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BoomerD

BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Originally posted by: BoomerD
I spent most of a summer working on a construction project north of Sacramento near the small town of Williams, CA.

Located in the midst of Kahleeforneeya's rice country, we'd get swarmed with big fucking water bugs when the farmers would drain the paddies. BIG muthafuckas...2-3" long.
Not very stable fliers either. You'd be standing there working, when something'd hit you in the hard hat.<pop> The first time, I looked around to see who was throwing rocks...then I saw the big fucking bug on the ground...looking like it'd run into something and was stunned...My 10-1/2FF work boots took care of it...<CRUNCH!> Then 25,000,000 of the bastards came to see what had just happened...:roll:
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Man I wish I could see a picture of right after they came to see "what just happend."
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Joo gots a dirty mind...:D


Just imagine the air filled with bugs...big ones, little ones, inbetween ones...all swarming everywhere. We were using big portable job lights and there were so many bugs that they gave off shadows...like clouds passing in front of the sun.
 
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dakels

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Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: CptCrunch
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Unless your friend is 10 feet tall, that so-called "giant" water bug looks fairly pedestrian.

I thought this was going to be about something like one of those huge pill bugs from the bottom of the ocean. http://www.sciencedaily.com/im...06/07/060710164527.jpg
Something that requires two hands to hold.
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SWEET MOTHER OF GOD. NUKES. FROM. ORBIT. NOW.
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x20,000
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Fixed.
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Moar!
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Ha, my Marine Biology professor back in college said he was doing a study and they brought half a dozen of those guys up from the super deep in air tight containers. As soon as they opened the containers in the lab they exploded from the sudden change in pressure and there were guys all over the place. Learn a lot about them and how they are pretty much the bottom feeders of the deep, most of the time spending days walking all over the place looking for dead carcasses of fish that have died naturally.

I'd love one of those lil' bastards as a pet. I'd name it snoopy.
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That was hard to read... So the isopods exploded? I keep seeing all these pictures of them on the surface just fine. Most deep sea creatures do die at the surface due to decompression but I was wondering how these isopods with their hard shells stand up. I think lots of crustaceans/exoskeletons survive fairly long on the surface whereas soft tissue creatures like fish and tube worms die very quickly.
 
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dakels

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Nov 20, 2002
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Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Originally posted by: BoomerD
I spent most of a summer working on a construction project north of Sacramento near the small town of Williams, CA.

Located in the midst of Kahleeforneeya's rice country, we'd get swarmed with big fucking water bugs when the farmers would drain the paddies. BIG muthafuckas...2-3" long.
Not very stable fliers either. You'd be standing there working, when something'd hit you in the hard hat.<pop> The first time, I looked around to see who was throwing rocks...then I saw the big fucking bug on the ground...looking like it'd run into something and was stunned...My 10-1/2FF work boots took care of it...<CRUNCH!> Then 25,000,000 of the bastards came to see what had just happened...:roll:
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Man I wish I could see a picture of right after they came to see "what just happend."
Click to expand...

Joo gots a dirty mind...:D


Just imagine the air filled with bugs...big ones, little ones, inbetween ones...all swarming everywhere. We were using big portable job lights and there were so many bugs that they gave off shadows...like clouds passing in front of the sun.
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Your original comment reminds me if Cicada swarms. Those thing fly like they had 1 too many and are heavy enough to smack you. Most of these things I can handle 1 or a few but swarms creep me out. I have seen swarms of migrating millipedes, bright yellow and orange caterpillars, furry brown and orange caterpillars, and cicadas. Never seen a locust swarm. I'd probably not leave the car/building.
 
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takeru

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Jan 1, 2002
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Originally posted by: dakels
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: CptCrunch
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Unless your friend is 10 feet tall, that so-called "giant" water bug looks fairly pedestrian.

I thought this was going to be about something like one of those huge pill bugs from the bottom of the ocean. http://www.sciencedaily.com/im...06/07/060710164527.jpg
Something that requires two hands to hold.
Click to expand...

SWEET MOTHER OF GOD. NUKES. FROM. ORBIT. NOW.
Click to expand...

x20,000
Click to expand...

Fixed.
Click to expand...

Moar!
Click to expand...

Ha, my Marine Biology professor back in college said he was doing a study and they brought half a dozen of those guys up from the super deep in air tight containers. As soon as they opened the containers in the lab they exploded from the sudden change in pressure and there were guys all over the place. Learn a lot about them and how they are pretty much the bottom feeders of the deep, most of the time spending days walking all over the place looking for dead carcasses of fish that have died naturally.

I'd love one of those lil' bastards as a pet. I'd name it snoopy.
Click to expand...
That was hard to read... So the isopods exploded? I keep seeing all these pictures of them on the surface just fine. Most deep sea creatures do die at the surface due to decompression but I was wondering how these isopods with their hard shells stand up. I think lots of crustaceans/exoskeletons survive fairly long on the surface whereas soft tissue creatures like fish and tube worms die very quickly.
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explosive sudden decompression? maybe the live ones were slowly brought up?
 
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dakels

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Nov 20, 2002
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Originally posted by: dakels
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Originally posted by: BoomerD
I spent most of a summer working on a construction project north of Sacramento near the small town of Williams, CA.

Located in the midst of Kahleeforneeya's rice country, we'd get swarmed with big fucking water bugs when the farmers would drain the paddies. BIG muthafuckas...2-3" long.
Not very stable fliers either. You'd be standing there working, when something'd hit you in the hard hat.<pop> The first time, I looked around to see who was throwing rocks...then I saw the big fucking bug on the ground...looking like it'd run into something and was stunned...My 10-1/2FF work boots took care of it...<CRUNCH!> Then 25,000,000 of the bastards came to see what had just happened...:roll:
Click to expand...

Man I wish I could see a picture of right after they came to see "what just happend."
Click to expand...

Joo gots a dirty mind...:D


Just imagine the air filled with bugs...big ones, little ones, inbetween ones...all swarming everywhere. We were using big portable job lights and there were so many bugs that they gave off shadows...like clouds passing in front of the sun.
Click to expand...

Your original comment reminds me if Cicada swarms. Those thing fly like they had 1 too many and are heavy enough to smack you. Most of these things I can handle 1 or a few but swarms creep me out. I have seen swarms of migrating millipedes, bright yellow and orange caterpillars, furry brown and orange caterpillars, and cicadas. Never seen a locust swarm. I'd probably not leave the car/building.
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Whoa this topic made me remember those caterpillars from my childhood. I never knew what they were until now.

spicebush swallowtail caterpiller
These woolybears were the cutest bugs ever.
 
SagaLore

SagaLore

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Dec 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
So I went ice fishing with a coworker and this evil devil creature swam up to lay siege on us. I had never seen one of these things before and couldn't believe my buddy just picked it up... I know I wanted nothing to do with touching that thing.

I looked around and found that these things are quite cleverly named, "Giant Water Bugs". Original.

Wikipedia says they have one of the most painful bites of all insects and spray noxious fluids from their anus while playing dead as a defense mechanism. I employ a similar defense mechanism from time to time... biting and crapping myself.
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I can't believe your buddy picked it up either. As soon as I saw the pic I knew that was not a bug you want to get bitten by.
 
edro

edro

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Apr 5, 2002
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Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Unless your friend is 10 feet tall, that so-called "giant" water bug looks fairly pedestrian.

I thought this was going to be about something like one of those huge pill bugs from the bottom of the ocean. http://www.sciencedaily.com/im...06/07/060710164527.jpg
Something that requires two hands to hold.
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Yea, but does that one spray fluid from it's anus? I bet the little devil bug could take that big sonofabitch down.

We'll have to e-mail these guys and get it set up: http://japanesebugfights.com/
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LOL! I'm surprised PETA isn't all over them.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Unless your friend is 10 feet tall, that so-called "giant" water bug looks fairly pedestrian.

I thought this was going to be about something like one of those huge pill bugs from the bottom of the ocean. http://www.sciencedaily.com/im...06/07/060710164527.jpg
Something that requires two hands to hold.
Click to expand...

Isn't that one of those recently discovered species thought to have been extinct for billions of years?
 
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