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Bo

Check out this Scolopsella Reticulata that i found! Pay attention to that Thing between it's legs!

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Soendoro Soetanto

WOW… powerful insects.

Soendoro Soetanto
Guest

The tree ant is actually called the Ant Allomerus.
angle

Um, that sticky-outy bit is actually the snout. The other end is the butt end.
Rludtke

article starts off terrible, 1st picture is Not a beetle, it's a Dobson fly i believe.

guest42

thanks finally i know what is
Anonymous

Agreed, that is most definately a Dobson fly… I came here to point that out too… Funny, after one of those things falls onto your hand after reaching into a vending machine to grab a can of coke, you tend to never forget what they look like…

Matt D

I recently discovered the Tarantula Hawk – a variety of wasp in the Southwestern US that uses it's venom to paralyze an adult tarantula, and then drags it down into it's underground nest. It then lays it's eggs around the paralyzed spider, and upon hatching, the larvae make a living meal of the still-live spider.
Spookys27

Cyclommatus's have long mandibles (horns). But don't worry too hot or too cold they die. Oh and has anyone seen a bug that looks like this: looks like a ladybug just with a white shell and red diamonds? If so could you tell me?
Lava

Yes it is. I was about to make the same correction.

tacos134

i thought he put that picture to show bugs can be “scary as balls” or whatever

Chaospoet1

Worth noting that Creationists will argue just about anything as evidence of intelligent design, because it's a lot easier than doing all that pesky scientific research.

J Marie

Tell that to a scientist who also happens to be a creationist – and there ARE plenty of them. I get tired of people assuming that Creationists always chalk everything up to one simple answer. In turn, we could say that Evolutionists chalk everything up to an “accident” or “it just evolved that way.” Maybe the idea of intelligent design wouldn’t bother you if it made no sense?

Jneumann1

Shows what you know. What evolutionist has ever “chalked it up to an “accident” or said “it just evolved that way.”

By the way, arguing that there are scientists that are creationists is a bogus argument. Science is a pretty broad area, just because someone is a scientist doesn’t give them instant expertise in all sciences, lol.

Hell, even Einstien was wrong in a lot of things. The difference is, creationists accept creationism as an unchangable fact (based on zero evidence), where as evolution is reguarded as a theory with mountains of supporting evidence, but is always subject to change, as with everything in this world. Do you think that Darwin just pulled evolution out of his ass?

Hikkaru

They ALLLLLLLL say that you Dunts! With out the “marvelous accident” that Evo people have no base to “FILL THE GAPS” every scientist agrees there is more “DE” evolution that is in progress at present and that is the key word at Present. Science and and a Creator agree with one another 99% of the time, but humans can’t admit there is a Creator to this most perfect world we ARE discovering
http://twitter.com/Eudcashin Michael

Oh of course the mountains of evidence. Like all those fossils which simply show that there were some species alive at one point that are now dead. Not a single one showing a transitional form. And the fact that we have never witnessed a species changing into a different species which darwin himself admitted.
And before you start criticising scientists for not having expertise in all areas. Did you stop and check to see if you know what your talking about. No, I don’t think you did. What things was Einstein wrong on. Your just throwing in comments on Einstein to make yourself look smart and failing. What was he wrong on? Relativity of time. Warping of space.

Muffintits

Intelligent design is creationism, which is mythology. There is no fact or evidence to it, and snipe arguments like “what about the gaps?” are little more than bullshit that convince only the feeble-minded. It is downright depressing that many people would try to ameliorate their existential anxiety with myth. Perhaps one day creationism will contribute something to humanity other than the comfort that generally accompanies ignorant presumption, but it’s unlikely. I would much prefer that human progress not be stymied so much by the lesser thinking of those so afraid of the unknown that they turn to mythology for answers.

http://twitter.com/Eudcashin Michael

What an arrogant depressing presumptious git you are.
ThatGuy

Ok, first off creationalusts gave contributed more to this world than evolutionists have. Because you morons go stare at rocks all day and say this will one day become a frog. Also if I take a box of computer parts and shake it, will I get a laptop? How does something explode in a empty universe? It doesn’t. God made this world and that’s that. There’s more proof to Christianity than evolution. So far your evolutionary scientists having wasted 50+ years of there life and found nothing. If your going to start a post about this. Please begin with, “We have absoulutetly no proof of this. But this is what we think.” and I’m sorry you r going to rot in hell because of your mental stupidity.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WRWQGFKSOBKANCK3UAPFA3G4G4 (n/a)

Bot flies. Your argument is invalid
Mikitoma

You must be a yankee dude, when you talk about subject with no more then 4 grade. Your knowledge about bugs is between grade 2 and 4. only from obtuse fucking doom yenkee idiot. What god have to do with versatility of bugs, idiot? I am living in north america for 30 years and never met knowledgeable yenkee yet. you are pure example of doom yenkee. you prove my point 100 times. And by the way do you think of that alcohol jankee jesus.. A..A..A.. doom yenkee.

Anon

You’ve lived in North America for 30 years, and yet your english is atrocious, not to mention your incredibly flawed logic, but you act superior to all “North Americans”, (Which by the way, does not consist of only “yenkee”s). Something doesn’t add up here…
Dopebeats4dastreets

LOL I believe that people from overseas come out the womb high, LOL, I can hear your twisted-up words through your text. Oh white people you crack me up…..thats why they call you crackers. Gooday Mate!
Dr Doom

I was just reading the comments here and I couldn’t help but notice that your vocabulary, unlike that of the other fine people commenting on this website is…lacking, to say the least. I’m not here to insult you, however I do think that one should have a firm grasp of the English language before attempting to insult someone or make a point.

DICKFCKER

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY
guest

Why does this come off as an article you would find on cracked?
Sdubbs

Fail. No Brown Recluse spider mentioned.

Eleanor

Spiders aren’t insects, so it would be inappropriate.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Meijer/1223139133 Sam Meijer

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guest42

OMG!! i have the first one and i don’t know what it was

Guest

It’s a Dobson fly.

anon in CR

I would have expected to see the tarantula hawk or tarantula killer wasp listed here. It is a very large colorful wasp that is similar in MO to the voodoo wasp, but seeks out tarantula tunnels and lays eggs inside the bodies of tarantulas, which are eventually consumed by the young tarantula hawks. Although essentially non-aggressive toward humans, its sting is reputed to be the second most painful stings a human can experience. They are plentiful where I live in the mountains of Costa Rica, so I guess that I have a healthy population of tarantulas, as well (I have found several species of tarantulas in my yard, as well).
Anonymous

keep your scrotum away from tree ants
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