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Giant Water Bug

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SlowSpyder

Lifer
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.

Anyway, I just wanted to spread awareness of this creature, maybe I'll make a Giant Water Bug awareness magnetic ribbon or something. I still can't belive my buddy just picked that thing up, it could of ended badly from what wikipedia says... in which case I would have laughed. Looking at the picture of the male with the eggs on it's back in the Wiki article makes me want to take a shower.
 
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/
 
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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I dunno, I don't think the giant pill bugs do much but roll up into a ball when threatened.

I'm 100% okay with forcing invertebrates to fight to the death for my entertainment. Fuck PETA!!
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
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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SonofaBITCH! I actually jumped back in my chair when I opened up that pic:shocked:
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n00b!
From Dennilfloss's thread:
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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.
 
Why am I not surprised that the Wiki article had a section about this bug being used as food in Asia.
 
Originally posted by: CPA
Why am I not surprised that the Wiki article had a section about this bug being used as food in Asia.
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Hey--as long as it's not a threatened species, I'm all for eating bugs. By other people. 😛
 
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.
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Moar!
 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
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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Looks like a differnt species of lobster to me, I wonder what it would taste like with butter. mmmm
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I was thinking the exact same thing LOL. Look at all those legs, mmm! 😀
 
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
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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.
 
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:
 
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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