Big Bad Ugly Bug Contest

[Tree Spud]

Okay, It has been a slow, annoying, & frustrating year. Nothing has gone right for many of us but mother nature has marched on.

i thought we could have fun by posting some of the crazy bugs, snakes, reptiles, spiders, etc. that we encounter while in the field. No mammals (bears, cats, coyotes, etc.) just those things that create the creepy crawlers or fright when you find them. I have had in interesting year uncovering 2 hornets nests and having been stung many times.

We may have to regulate you southern boys between Louisiana and Florida on the coast cause you guys have professional level scary stuff!

I'll start off ... below is a horse fly from our place ... I smacked him once and it only stunned him. That is a quarter next to him for size reference. That allowed me to put him in a jar for his own good.

Well start posting what you find out there and let's have some fun ...

 

[Rit]

 

[Tree Spud]

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Where is his leash

 

[scott44]

A couple years ago I was walking the edge of one of my plots and I saw a bumble bee but it looked different, upon further investigation he was dinner for a Praying Mantis.

 

[Barndog56]

Had this one in the garden. Actually saw him catch a fly and wrap it up like a mummy. Had to pick peppers around him.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

View attachment 31679Had this one in the garden. Actually saw him catch a fly and wrap it up like a mummy. Had to pick peppers around him.

In the garden? Weird.


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[S.T.Fanatic]

Poor picture but these things were all over the place back in early August. In 17 more years I’d expect it to be the same. Straight out of a si fi film.


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[fishin coyote]

Walking out the door on the way to work a couple of days ago. Not the best picture but it’s the 1st one I’ve seen in awhile.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Not exactly ugly

Saw this on the side of the building at work one morning earlier this summer.


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[Hoytvectrix]

 

[James P. Bipps]

 

[James P. Bipps]

A cecropia moth caterpillar.

 

[James P. Bipps]

Not exactly ugly

Saw this on the side of the building at work one morning earlier this summer.


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A cecropia moth.

 

[Mortenson]

These things invaded the lake we vacation on in N. MN. They mow down the weeds in the lake. Doing our part to remove a few.

 

[hillrunner]

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Love me some boiled crayfish. When I was young my dad would take us on fishing trips in northern wis. There was one place in particular we went to several times. After dark we would go down to the boat landing with flashlights and catch hundreds of crayfish to boil up.

 

[neonomad]

View attachment 31679Had this one in the garden. Actually saw him catch a fly and wrap it up like a mummy. Had to pick peppers around him.

When I was a little kid we couldn’t find a cat so I was looking around the barnyard for it... I went into a grown up pigpen with tall weeds. At one point my hand accidentally grabbed something, I looked in my palm and I was holding a huge yellow and black spider. I ran screaming to the house... 35-40 years later I’m still struggling with a mix of respect and fear of spiders. Late summer scouting Ohio field edges are full of these too.

 

[bigbendmarine]

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Guessing most everyone recognizes the "click beetle"... if anyone doesn't they have no idea how entertaining they can be to little kids. Fond memories of catching them in my childhood days and watching / listening to them click!

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Guessing most everyone recognizes the "click beetle"... if anyone doesn't they have no idea how entertaining they can be to little kids. Fond memories of catching them in my childhood days and watching / listening to them click!

I said the same thing immediately, Brought me right back.

 

[bigbendmarine]

We may have to regulate you southern boys between Louisiana and Florida on the coast cause you guys have professional level scary stuff!

Representing Florida, captured this photo this past week when I found an assassin bug feeding on a "bird poop mimic" giant swallowtail caterpillar.