Comments for Insect Picture of the Day

Comment on Barn Spider by spiritualtramp

spiritualtramp — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:04:06 +0000

JF, making me laugh when I’ve eaten as much as I have is not good for me.

That is an awesome spider, but I’m glad it lives at your house.

Comment on Assassin Bug by JFargo

JFargo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:22:40 +0000

I have to admit to giving a good chuckle while I wrote that line. I’m not ashamed to admit that I love laughing at my own bad sense of humor.

Comment on Barn Spider by JFargo

JFargo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:21:30 +0000

I swear when I saw the first picture, my brain screamed the primal equivalent of “Kill it with fire!” Which I think, properly translated comes across as “AAAAAH! GRAG SMASH!” I think.

Then, I read the last line, and now I’m never taking a shower again. Well, okay, I will, but I’m never using a towel again.

Comment on Assassin Bug by David Brady

David Brady — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:50:10 +0000

I am still laughing at “They’re living in the walls!”

Comment on Assassin Bug by JFargo

JFargo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:29:14 +0000

I had to double-check, but thank god it turns out I’m not a strawberry.

Comment on Bees by tceisele

tceisele — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:10:58 +0000

macnut: the only thing I’ve blogged about beekeeping is this hate-filled screed about varroa mites. Overall, beekeeping has become a depressing occupation, because one is prevented from doing most of the cool stuff by these never-sufficiently-to-be-accursed mites that keep killing the bees. Since I wrote that, my bees were wiped out by them yet again, and I’m taking a year off to think, ponder, review advice, and decide what I’m going to do next time to try to keep the bees alive. It is not a happy time to keep bees.

Comment on Assassin Bug by tceisele

tceisele — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:47:09 +0000

Wait, wait, hold on a minute. Maybe it isn’t an assassin bug after all! It looks more like one of these Long-Necked Seed Bugs.

So, they are no danger to you after all. Unless you are a strawberry.

Comment on Assassin Bug by tceisele

tceisele — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:25:49 +0000

Oh, it’s OK. The assassin bug *is* your bodyguard. They eat bedbugs!

(Well, some of them do, anyway.)

Comment on Bees by macnut

macnut — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:18:26 +0000

I think seeing that on my porch would have me torn between two impulses:

1- (supported wholeheartedly by my wife, who hates bugs) would be to run to the store, get the biggest can of bug spray I could get, come back and wage CHEMICAL WARFARE! The problem with this, besides being counterattacked by a swarm of angry bees unleashing their own kind of chemical attack, would be an even bigger mess to clean up afterwards.

2- leave them alone, let them take the sugar, then trash the now-empty container. Problem with this is having to stay off my own porch for a week or more while the bees carted off the sugar, seeing how protective they were of this food bonanza.

Which course I would take depends entirely on how strong my aversion to being stung is (very strong) and how much my wife nagged me (we all know how women are when they want someone else to do something…)

tceisele, have you ever blogged about your beekeeping? I’d be interested in reading about a few daily activities in that area…

Comment on Fly by David Brady

David Brady — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:33:49 +0000

I keep thinking of Triumph the Wonder Dog.

“This is a grrreat site… FOR ME TO POOP ON!”