bugs are cool

[Pah]

Bugs are cool in the computer world as well. They present a chance of overcoming faulty logic

A computer error takes it's name from the real bug that short-circuited the first vacumn tube computer.

 

[Stormygale]

This gosh-dern crazy. I had just been watching a bug out in my daughters pool this morning before it started raining, picked it up in my hand, and asking myself how it had gotten there when there is no water around, realized it had wings. This little water bug, long narrow body with two swimming legs off to each side, had captured all of my attention. Till...a chamaleon lept from a light pole into the border-grass and I went that direction....yea. That is weird how this happened....lol.

 

[Prima]

ooooh I have a cool story for Majik!

Three years ago, we went and got a christmas tree just like always. We get them from a big christmas tree farm, cut them down ourselves, etc. I have this habit of not telling my family the cool things I notice because, well, they usually don't care. At all. So I didn't tell them that there was a big brown thing in the tree that looked like an egg sac.

Sooo a day later, I wake to find hundreds of tiny praying mantes! Luckily, I saved most of them. They were so adorable! I still don't know how it happened - it seems rather odd. My best guess is that they needed warmth to hatch, but I have no idea.

 

[Runt]

I don't love bugs, but with the exception of scorpions, I don't hate them enough to kill them. I've been raised in a family that sweeps cockroaches outdoors, plays with daddy-long-legs, is slapped on the hand for stomping on lines of ants/ant hills, and catches moths/crickets to release outdoors.

Once I had an African bullfrog, and had to feed it crickets and such. My mother and I eventually gave him away (cool though he was!) in exhange for a cat. I know she eats bugs sometimes (and birds too, not to mention barn mice), but at least I don't have to feed them to her every day...

Yesterday I found a daddy-long-legs running around in my bathtub, and I ignored it until I was ready to take a bath. Then I just picked it up, and transported it to a vacant spiderweb in the kitchen. I checked this morning, and it is still there.

I have to admit though... I absolutely hate and fear scorpions... and I happily show them to my cat whenever I find one in the barn (she finds them to be a very tasty, crunchy little treat). The nasty things hide in the alfalpha and then are transported from the feed store to our barn. *shivers*

 

[Druidus]

There are only two scorpians capable of killing a human. I don't think either of them lives in the U.S.. Why are you so scared of them?

 

[kreeden]

After watching us take the time to move a cricket from immediate danger, she commented, "You should just kill it. It's not part of nature."

If a cricket isn't a part of nature , what is it ? That is kinda cute , but kinda scarey at the same time . Someone is teaching that child such a thing ?

Bugs are cool , but can't say that I have a problem killing them . Not that I go out of my way to do so , ans may even try to save them depending upon the type . But when they start feeding on me , they should expect to pay the price ... If you can be bite by a deer fly , or horse fly , and not swat it , then you have a lot of will power .

 

[Druidus]

But when they start feeding on me , they should expect to pay the price ...

If you can be bite by a deer fly , or horse fly , and not swat it , then you have a lot of will power .

i never have trouble with that. I make my own repellent, and it works well. Get a plastic spray bottle, and fill it with real lemon juice. Take it along with you, and every now and then, spray some on your clothes, skin and hair. Keeps the bugs away wonderfully.

 

[Valjean]

Yesterday I found a daddy-long-legs running around in my bathtub, and I ignored it until I was ready to take a bath. Then I just picked it up, and transported it to a vacant spiderweb in the kitchen. I checked this morning, and it is still there.

Go back and rescue him, Runt! He's probably still in the web 'cause he's stuck there. He's lucky the spider didn't eat him.

Daddy long legs (harvestmen) aren't spiders, don't spin webs, and don't even eat bugs --they're vegetarians.

 

[michel]

I used to be scared of spiders, bees and wasps; since I became aware of not wishing to harm creatures, I have overcome my fear completely.

 

[Saw11_2000]

I hate spiders. I mean I am so afraid of them that I will get as far away from them as I can and throw things. I am such a coward when it somes to that. As far as bugs go, I don't mind them for the most part. I don't like mesquitos. I have never been stung by a bee, so I don't know if I should be afraid of them or not. I guess I should be tested to see if I am allergic, but I haven't yet. It's on my list of things.

Agreed somewhat, I hate bugs pretty much, but those damn mosquitos are the worst. They scare the $#*( out of me, thinking I might get stung while I'm sleeping, I go into OCD mode when I find them, I scour the house with a shoe or a newspaper or something rediculous like that.

 

[Hope]

My favorite is the praying mantis, I find them absolutely facinating!

I second that!!

I like most bugs ( aside from the nasty, pesty ones like mosquitos and ticks and such ). But the praying mantis is definitely my favorite. I think they have the most 'personality', if you want to call it that, of any bug that I know. The way they can turn their heads, the way they groom themselves, the way they eat their dinner---they're so cool to watch. When I was younger, my siblings and I would catch them and bring them indoors and let them inhabit our houseplants. We'd provide them with crickets and stuff to eat, and I could get some to drink water from a drop on a finger. Whenever I come across one now, I still get pretty excited, like a little kid.

It's nice to know I'm not the only female who likes bugs! When I was younger I shared a room with my two sisters, and whenever any bug would appear in the room, they would holler for me to come and get it. Even if it was just a harmless little beetle. I would tease my sisters about that---what's so scary about a tiny beetle?

I do confess, though, that spiders kinda give me the creeps. But they aren't insects, technically.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

Go back and rescue him, Runt! He's probably still in the web 'cause he's stuck there. He's lucky the spider didn't eat him.

Daddy long legs (harvestmen) aren't spiders, don't spin webs, and don't even eat bugs --they're vegetarians.

Daddy Long legs is our friend.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

If a cricket isn't a part of nature , what is it ?

Did you know you can calculate the temperature by counting the cricket chirps? They chirp slower when it's cold, and faster when it's hot. Try it sometime, it's pretty accurate. From the Old Farmers Almanac.

To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature. Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F

To convert cricket chirps to degrees Celsius, count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature. Example: 48 chirps /(divided by) 3 + 4 = 20° C

 

[Druidus]

Saw, I swear, follow my advice and spray yourself with real lemon juice. It's always worked for me. Always! Bugs go nowhere near you!

 

[Quoth The Raven]

Go back and rescue him, Runt! He's probably still in the web 'cause he's stuck there. He's lucky the spider didn't eat him.

Daddy long legs (harvestmen) aren't spiders, don't spin webs, and don't even eat bugs --they're vegetarians.

Your Daddy long legs must be different to ours then cos ours spin webs (for some reason they're strangely attracted to the toilet) and actually eat other spiders.

Edit:Went and looked them up...there are two types of Daddy Longlegs, the Harvestman and the spider (though the website I found said Harvestmen are omnivorous and will literally eat anything that comes their way,from decaying vegetable matter to carrion to dung).

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

Saw, I swear, follow my advice and spray yourself with real lemon juice. It's always worked for me. Always! Bugs go nowhere near you!

And it smells lemony fresh, instead of like OFF, yuck.

 

[cmotdibbler]

I've always been fascinated by bugs and spiders. A simple mid-western backyard has loads of subjects for macro photography. Usually I end up taking pictures of something I can't identify beyond "bug", "spider" or "wasp" but a quick trip to the InsectNet forum usually has someone who can identify any critter.

A link to my deviantart gallery of insect pix

 

[michel]

We washed the sheets today; after I got them off the line and took them indoors, I shook them out; to my horror, I saw a small spider which must have been in the sheets. I spent at least five minutes looking for the little guy, wondering if he was O.K......

 

[Valjean]

Lady Lazarus -- I knew this would come up. Daddy long legs is a colloquial term that refers to different creatures in different regions. From Runt's location I assumed the beastie in the bath was of the one-body-segment, two eyed, webless, wingless, biteless variety.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

Lady Lazarus -- I knew this would come up. Daddy long legs is a colloquial term that refers to different creatures in different regions. From Runt's location I assumed the beastie in the bath was of the one-body-segment, two eyed, webless, wingless, biteless variety.

I think the confusion came from the fact that in Australia if you refer to a Daddy Longlegs, you're always talking about the spider. Before yesterday I'd never heard of anything else bearing the name, but I grew up letting the ones in mt Grandparents outside toilet run all over my hands...even when I was severely arachnophobic.