June Bugs are THE MOST ANNOYING bugs ever!

[SlowSpyder]

My dog isn't all that smart, but his one redeeming quality is he goes after june bugs with a vengeance that I have never before seen. He swats them with his paws. He bites them. He toys with them as if they are to get away then when he's lured them in to a false sense of security, he delivers the coup de grace... he leaves their dead bodies out so other june bugs know that this is not the house for them. He's a good dog.

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

ummm, what you get in SoCal and call "june-bugs" are different than what the folks back east and down south call "june-bugs." There are however, many different beetles that are similar, in that they start from grubs, become fairly large beetles, and happen to mature from the larval stage about May or June...thus the name.

The tarantulas we have up here are brown, about the size of your hand. They carry a pretty good sting when they bite, but for most people, aren't any worse than a bee-sting.

Considering I don't know what a June Bug is, I'm guessing they aren't here in the Bay Area.

I see tarantulas all the time though. They're cute. My favorite place to mountain bike has so many they throw an annual tarantula fest. http://www.coepark.org/tfest.html

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Dirigible

Originally posted by: BoomerD

ummm, what you get in SoCal and call "june-bugs" are different than what the folks back east and down south call "june-bugs." There are however, many different beetles that are similar, in that they start from grubs, become fairly large beetles, and happen to mature from the larval stage about May or June...thus the name.

The tarantulas we have up here are brown, about the size of your hand. They carry a pretty good sting when they bite, but for most people, aren't any worse than a bee-sting.

Considering I don't know what a June Bug is, I'm guessing they aren't here in the Bay Area.

I see tarantulas all the time though. They're cute. My favorite place to mountain bike has so many they throw an annual tarantula fest. http://www.coepark.org/tfest.html

June Bug

 

[StinkyPinky]

I had a wasp fly up my nose once. Whats even more amazing is that it got stuck up my huge honker and it didn't even sting me. I just picked it out.....now that's one hell of a booger.

I screamed like a girl though, and damn it, I'm not going to apologize for doing so.

 

[rh71]

I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

QFT. Hate fvcking insects.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

QFT. Hate fvcking insects.

It is not an insect, but when I lived on Okinawa we used to run into these guys all the time doing telephone work all around the bases. That one is just a little one too.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

QFT. Hate fvcking insects.

It is not an insect, but when I lived on Okinawa we used to run into these guys all the time doing telephone work all around the bases. That one is just a little one too.

OMFG. What the hell is that?:Q

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

QFT. Hate fvcking insects.

It is not an insect, but when I lived on Okinawa we used to run into these guys all the time doing telephone work all around the bases. That one is just a little one too.

OMFG. What the hell is that?:Q

I, for one, hail our new spider overlords.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

QFT. Hate fvcking insects.

It is not an insect, but when I lived on Okinawa we used to run into these guys all the time doing telephone work all around the bases. That one is just a little one too.

OMFG. What the hell is that?:Q

They are Giant Wood Spiders. They are mildly poisonous, and they do get much bigger than the one in the pic with me there. I have seen some where just the body was 8-10 inches long or so. Very nasty to see one. The one in that picture we played with for a while, throwing pinecones into it's web (it was flat against that building). It actually ripped one of the pinecones right out of the web and dropped it on the ground (they were small little things though).

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

Just flush the toilet, quick win.

 

[BoomerD]

I did a job in Williams, Ca, about 50 miles north of Sacramento...right in the middle of the rice fields/paddies. This time of year, the water bugs come out...and they get BIG. These are like the typical "water boatman" /backswimmer bugs, but they get to be about 2-3" long. At night, we'd be working under lights, and it looked like a snowstorm with all the bugs in the air. One night, something hit me in the hardhat with a "THUNK" so hard I thought someone had thrown a rock. I looked down and there was a 2" water bug on the ground, looking sort of dazed and confused. <crunch>

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I saw a June Bug in September last year, it must of been a blonde June Bug.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane

Originally posted by: rh71
I can't stand insects. I caught some kind of beetle last night crawling across my carpet and seeing that squishing = nasty guts, I threw it into my toilet instead. Forced it to drown over the course of 10 full minutes. All of a sudden it didn't move anymore. Victory. Yes, it was completely worth my time. Amazingly resilient those bastids.

Just flush the toilet, quick win.

You missed the point.

Although, at the moment it stopped moving, I actually felt remorse for purposely killing a living creature. Quite surreal, that moment.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I use to deliver newspapers in my 20's and once you walk up a dark path and have a spider web that you cant see, with the spider sitting in it, that you walk right into at face level you are never the same.

 

[Leros]

June bugs are really annoying. They fly directly into our window all night long. We have blinds, I don't know what their problem is. They also run into the brick on the side of the house. About every half second, a stupid June bug thuds on our window. *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* all night long. Every morning, there is a pile of dead June bugs under our window. Stupidest creatures ever.

 

[Ryan]

You've obviously never had the pleasure of dealing with Love Bugs (anyone in the South)

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: Ryan
You've obviously never had the pleasure of dealing with Love Bugs (anyone in the South)

Love bug

Interesting. I noticed that they say that they are so prolific since they don't have many/any predators. I know they say that about the "Asian Beetles" (ladybugs) that swarm around here in Indiana. I was having a cig one evening and put that to the test. A beetle landed on my hand, and I just happened to be near a spider's canopy. I flicked the beetle in, the spider charged out of it's trapdoor, pounced on top, then dropped it, and slowly backed away! Weird!

Are they in the mafia? "Do you know who the &%$( I am? I could have you KILLED! And the %^*#@ you took to the prom!"