What is this beast?!

[rach_leigh]

eww...those are creepy!! I hate worms sooo bad....but at least if you step on one it doesn't crunch I was thinking Palmento bug? Not sure...I had a family member that moved from PA to SC and was horrified by those things!

 

[pamszoo]

Thats disgusting! I'm doing the freaky bug dance after seeing that thing!

 

[Jeanette]

Gross... but I can't say much. When we had our HUGE cicada hatching a few years ago, I ate stir fried cicadas... but at least they were COOKED and no longer wiggling!!!

Perhaps it's just my fear of bugs talking here, but I wikipedia'd cicada and that looks even creepier than the water bug!!
I would have barfed watching you do that! lol. But everyone has their own tastes and culture! :wacko:

 

[mishellyshel]

i trap water bugs, cicadas & the hugest grasshoppers in my pool filter every summer! i am SO afraid they are going to hop on me when i empty the basket!! i scream like a little girl!!

 

[arf2184]

Those are creepy and big!

I think the strangest looking bug we get around here are the 10-lined June Beetles. They're harmless though. Haven't seen any this year yet. We also get some pretty freaky looking spiders.

 

[lauralynne]

EEEEW! I had to read this right when I come back from lunch... :vomit:

 

[Spoof]

I think the strangest looking bug we get around here are the 10-lined June Beetles. They're harmless though.

I think the Jerasulam Cricket takes it for being the creepiest up there. Ronda had one on the side of her chin cages and I dropped the chin I was carrying and just about crapped a kitten. It was 2+" long and nasty, and apparently they do bite.

There haven't been many bugs in the south I haven't been able to get a close look at, there was this beetle the other day that was close to the cricket experience though. It was in my hose, I still can not look at the picture for long due to the icky head, but I'll post it here for you. Yes, I took a picture of it hoping some day I'd be able to inspect it better. Some of the critters here are very curious looking like the buck moth caterpillars and Mr. Toebiter.

 

[chin_gal]

Maybe your bug eating friend comes from this culture? :rofl:

Sorry, that came up on google image search and I couldn't help myself. I'm not sure yet whether I'd be freaked out or facinated by those bugs, I never knew they even existed!

 

[SunshineChins]

Great.. just great.. when I thought I have seen all the gigantic gross looking bugs that live down here. EWWWWW!! I have lived here 11 years and have not seen one of those yet. Side note.. I did see my first scorpion in my kitchen last month crawl out from under my dishwasher...:shocked:

 

[Mystic]

Ugh...I have never seen a bug like that but I would have freaked out. Especially since they are 3-4 inches long. Thats a big bug!

 

[Remyma0408]

Bugs are gross. Especially that one.. bleh!!