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31 comments to "The Weirdest Insects in the World"
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PeterVk
October 8th, 2007 at
9:52 am
Really excellent article. I wasted about 2 hours on youtube while I read it… Thanks!
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SenorMysterioso
October 8th, 2007 at
10:34 am
insect posts make me itchy
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Johnald_Chaffinch
October 8th, 2007 at
10:38 am
a video of an Orchid Mantis here that i filmed catching a damselfly: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo6xt3uUsaQ
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Miss Cellania
October 8th, 2007 at
11:05 am
Johnald, that is wild! If I hadn’t looked at a ton of mantises for this post, I’d have never spotted that one.
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tuco
October 8th, 2007 at
6:17 pm
The biggest is Titan Beetle up to 6.5 inches (16.7cm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanus_giganteus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/lifeintheundergrowth/video. shtml
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Alex
October 8th, 2007 at
8:19 pm
The driver ants give me the willies!
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Crave TV
October 8th, 2007 at
11:24 pm
Simply amazing.
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FreyaBorealis
October 8th, 2007 at
11:36 pm
The link on Assassin Bugs ends with this sentence: “Assassin bugs probably have the most painful bites caused by insects.” I emphatically agree! One warm night in the summer of 1993 I was laying in bed reading while my baby slept in the next room and my husband was getting ready for bed. Suddenly I felt the most intense, lancinating pain I had ever experienced, on the soft inner flesh of my upper left arm just above the elbow. The pain grew and grew for what seemed like a full minute while I shrieked so loudly my husband came flying out of the bathroom and my son woke up screaming. I jumped out of bed, threw back the covers and laying there was this jet black beetle like insect with a pointy “nose” protruberance. It was at least an inch long. We trapped it with a cup and transferred it to a jar. My husband took it to work the next day because one of his coworker’s husbands was an entomologist who immediately i.d.’ed it as an Assassin Bug. As for me, over the course of several days I developed a firm welt about the size of a tennis ball in diameter that was obviously raised up from the surrounding skin. It ached, itched and burned like hell. I went to the doctor who said it was “just” a hyper-reaction to this particular insect’s sting, and he sent me home with cortisone cream. After about two weeks it cleared up but I will never, ever forget how intense the pain of that stinger was, second only to the pain of birthing my two babies…
FWIW, we never saw another of those bugs in our house for the remaining 12 years we lived there, nor had anyone I spoke to about it ever seen such a creature in these parts (NW Penna). We figured it had gotten in the house via a small hole in the window screen; at the time, a huge maple tree’s limbs extended across the yard and passed directly over that window onto the roof…
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Pieter Uithol
October 9th, 2007 at
1:06 am
Alien life forms….. simply amazing creatures.
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Keith Wright
October 9th, 2007 at
2:29 am
You mention wasps as a pollinator, but they are not, they eat meat.
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subcorpus
October 9th, 2007 at
6:34 am
very informative article …
went to youtibe right after i read this …
watched a few videos and i am now a wiser man …
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Rory
October 9th, 2007 at
7:05 am
“[Yellowjackets] … are master architects, chemists, and engineers.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Go Georgia Tech Yellowjackets!
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Jon
October 9th, 2007 at
7:14 am
@Keith Wright - He said bees, not wasps!And there’s a picture of a bee!
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Jo
October 9th, 2007 at
3:18 pm
Great article, just one thing. Bears don’t eat honey, they eat bee larvae.
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Warrior
October 10th, 2007 at
10:52 am
Bears eat honey. Haven’t you ever heard of Winnie the Pooh?? That fool can consume a couple jars easy if he’s left alone. Plus it’s hard not to eat honey while scooping a handful of bee larvae.
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Nora
October 10th, 2007 at
4:15 pm
Yay for Hercules and Goliath beetles. Love beetles. They’re awesome.
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farty
October 11th, 2007 at
2:56 am
mighty warrior: winnie the pooh isnt real
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Aleph
October 11th, 2007 at
9:29 am
Bears do eat honey, they’re omnivorous and spend as much time eating honey, berries, etc., as they do fish, carcasses, garbage, sharks, and robots (I know, as I used to work for one, and I asked).
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Miss Cellania
October 11th, 2007 at
9:30 am
Aleph, did you work for a bear or a robot?
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LOLWTF
October 16th, 2007 at
3:08 pm
touche Miss Cellania
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A Jetter
October 19th, 2007 at
4:18 am
@Jon. Keith is right. The article labels wasps as pollinators in the “Weird Lifecycle” section, not the section about bees.
“[the twisted-wing parasite] will climb a flower and wait for an insect pollinator (bee or wasp) to come along.”
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maureen
October 20th, 2007 at
7:22 am
actually, the strongest isn’t a hercules beetle, its a rhino beetle. saw it on animal planet
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maureen
October 20th, 2007 at
7:24 am
wait, i didn’t read that whole paragraph under it. it IS a kind of rhinoceros beetle
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me?
October 23rd, 2007 at
7:27 pm
i mean, over a course of 60million years, these insects know how to live,reproduce and of course,devide and conquer, i loved the post on how the millions of army ants took down a larger ant,ripped its wings off,and “imprisoned” it with the queen…poor guy lol
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Christer
October 23rd, 2007 at
8:41 pm
The only good bug is a dead bug!
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Beergeek
November 5th, 2007 at
9:57 am
I like turtles.
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maman
November 20th, 2007 at
11:39 pm
we need more pesticide. i hate bugs
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Randi
January 23rd, 2008 at
4:40 pm
This was a great article. I really enjoyed reading and learning more about these insects. I had not heard of most of the insects listed above. I really enjoyed the Orchid mantis. That insect really does look like an orchid.
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James
January 24th, 2008 at
10:47 am
Look at this:
Coleop-Terra - Faaaantastic!!!! -
James
January 24th, 2008 at
10:48 am
Sorry, coleop-terra.com
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Enezio E. de Almeida Filho
April 7th, 2008 at
7:55 pm
Keep up the great work!
Cheers from Brazil!
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