Tom's Wondrous Found Creaturepalooza

[new05002]

house is a host for many interesting bugs

[Jero]

Probably have some video of these (Striped Bark Scorpion)


Wolf Spider, that was about the size of a racket ball.


Sphinx Moth, I believe.

[FuzzHugger]

Yellow marbled orb weaver!

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^ Bonus orb weaver in the background!

[Chankgeez]

I had a butterfly in my bedroom, but I forgot to take a picture.

[Joe Gress]

I've had goat before....don't ask; I live in a weird part of the country. It doesn't taste that great

There's little fat in goat meat, so you have to prepare it almost the same way you would venison or elk.

Mix it with a bit of sausage, and you'll never know the difference.

[Achtane]

Orb weavers are kinda cool. Those little fatties have really good sight; there's one that chills on our shed and it always runs and hides as soon as I approach the web, even if I'm still 10-15 feet away. Building a web right in front of a shed door isn't the best idea ever, but whatever.
His(?) name is Henry.

Also

[proroby]

Orb weavers are kinda cool. Those little fatties have really good sight; there's one that chills on our shed and it always runs and hides as soon as I approach the web, even if I'm still 10-15 feet away. Building a web right in front of a shed door isn't the best idea ever, but whatever.
His(?) name is Henry.

Also

[Achtane]

WTF are these things?



All they ever do is sit around and rotate their wings like they're rolling their shoulders.

[Chankgeez]

Good time of year to bump this thread.

That looks like some kind of wasp.

[FuzzHugger]

Today in nope,nope,nope...the dobsonfly.

We were checking into a Motel 6 (Motel 666?) and this greeted us at our door.
Fuck these things.
This was over 4" long.

They can get up to 5" with a wingspan of 10". Yes.

The males look like this:

Which is terrifying, but it's the females that can bite hard and make you bleed.

Oh, and they spend most of their life in the water as hellgrammites. They have gills. And many legs. And pinchers.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJo--fMv5Y[/youtube]

[LOCOPELAND]

NOOOOPE

I had two slugs making woopie on the side of my house the night of July 4th. It was truly a strange sight. My wife took photos. I'll bug (hehe) her about getting them.

[goosekevin]

i found heaps of weird spiders, grubs and bugs along with some really huge worms the other day but i didnt think to take photos dang

[aedes]

WTF are these things?



All they ever do is sit around and rotate their wings like they're rolling their shoulders.

Those are cool--it's a fly called a Picture-winged fly.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in684

[christianatl]

Look at this Caterpillar I just saw outside... We get them every spring... The cats eat em...

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FUZZBRO

[christianatl]