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Jgrden

Jgrden

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I was showing a prospective buyer of our Toy Hauler the unit when a HUGE friggin bug flew down out of the sky. It took five feet of skidding before it stopped. It was GREEN, with black dots and had pincers on the front. That guy was bigger than a ping pong ball, smaller than a tennis ball. The pincers were so big they looked big enough to snip off my little finger if I put it in the wrong place. I have seen BIG bugs before, having lived in pre-historic Florida, but this thing takes the cake. What was it?? If a one pint glass jar were available I would have tried to catch it. It would have filled the jar.
 
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Well, you know the rules, John . . . no picture . . . no . . .

However, here, we call 'em "June" bugs.
 
John, might it be a Hercules Beetle?
 

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Okay, I have calmed down. They are So. American. They love sugary things like bananas. They do not bite but if you get your fingers caught between the wings on their back, they can pinch. they can lift 850 lbs. If you had the strength of one, you could lift 65 tons. Zoo keepers have trouble keeping them corralled. I think they are as scary as a tarantula and about as dangerous.
 
You live in Texas and you complain about BIG bugs?:eek: No wonder you're leaving.:biggrin: Welcome to California, you ought to fit right in here.:tongue::biggrin:
 
dalemcginnis said:
You live in Texas and you complain about BIG bugs?:eek: No wonder you're leaving.:biggrin: Welcome to California, you ought to fit right in here.:tongue::biggrin:
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This is EXACTLY what I was thinking as I read the OP!!!

Biggest bug we have here in CO are centipedes. Nasty things.
 
dalemcginnis said:
You live in Texas and you complain about BIG bugs?:eek: No wonder you're leaving.:biggrin: Welcome to California, you ought to fit right in here.:tongue::biggrin:
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Dale:
You're right. Pretty big stuff here too. California, with all the tree huggers and Sierra Club still can't keep anything growing. At least we don't have the Florida Love Bugs. Those things are nasty.
 
Jgrden said:
Dale:
You're right. Pretty big stuff here too. California, with all the tree huggers and Sierra Club still can't keep anything growing. At least we don't have the Florida Love Bugs. Those things are nasty.
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Maybe not in Conroe, but I don't know what you would have called them, but we had something in Humble we always called them "F bugs"... they flew end to end and were orange and black but splattered black or green on the windshield and headlights of the cars... :frown:they would coat the headlights enough to darken them and forget running the wipers to clean the windshield :frown::frown:.. Used to run through them from Houston to Slidell .. evidently they didn't like the northern parts of Lousiana... they usually weren't north of Slidell. :)
 
I always heard those little black and orange critters called telephone bugs. As in when you see them they were usually hung up. Suckers will eat the clear coat off the front of your car in a very short time, very acidic GI tract, which they usually leave all over your car for you.
 
I think this bug deserves it's own Sci-Fi movie. Government manipulation through science creates....MEGA HERCULES BUG! It's the size of a school bus, breeds in only 24 hrs, can take down a jumbo jet in one bite. Someone get me James Corbin on the phone please.
 
John, I am thinking it maybe that recent abundance of rain may have brought lots of bugs our way too. I took a pic. the other day of a bug behind my fence and as soon as I can figure out how to get it off my phone I'll post it here, but the sucker was big and colorful and in this many years living in TX I don't recall seeing it, then agian I am a city boy what do I know?
But, I tell you if that sucker landed anywhere close to me I would have resorted to pulling a shotgun on it though.
 
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That looks like one Horny bug! Squash it up and make a squished bug blank out of PR!
 
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