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I named him Tanker
2005-08-28, 11:57 AM #1
This is absolutely the most gigantic insect I've seen in my home, ever!

It may not look very big compared to the window frame, but this honker is like 8 1/2 inches across (I measured the window after we released him). He made a very audible and low pitched buzz, which was ****ing scary as hell. I was too much of a wuss to catch it, but my uncle just grabbed it and put it outside our patio window. :o I wish I caught a pic of it in his hands! :gbk:

Heck, there's a nuclear power plant like 40 miles away, maybe this bug got mutated in radiation or someting. Bah, j/k.:)
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2005-08-28, 12:00 PM #2
Last time I found a really weird bug I named it Bob (My boss) and brought it into work and pinned it to the postboard, and put a sticky note under it saying "Bob the bug"

That's my bug story.
2005-08-28, 12:12 PM #3
That's a big May Fly. :eek: They are only supposed to get about an inch long.
2005-08-28, 12:16 PM #4
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2005-08-28, 12:34 PM #5
Well the Half life series had to start somewhere... :p
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2005-08-28, 1:08 PM #6
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2005-08-28, 1:29 PM #7
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
That's a big May Fly. :eek: They are only supposed to get about an inch long.


It's a "giant crane fly."
2005-08-28, 1:31 PM #8
I think that may be a different word for the same thing.
2005-08-28, 1:55 PM #9
No, they're totally different. :p
2005-08-28, 1:56 PM #10
Didn't that bug have a scene in Starship Troopers?...
"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"
2005-08-28, 2:09 PM #11
Well, at least it wasn't a mosquito. That would have sucked ferociously. Literally.

Just imagine waking up in the middle of the night and finding a mosquito of that size sucking blood right next to your eyes. A lesser man would die from the shock.
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2005-08-28, 2:24 PM #12
it's a big daddy longlegs. Don't think i've ever seen one that big though.
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2005-08-28, 2:38 PM #13
Originally posted by TheJkWhoSaysNi:
it's a big daddy longlegs. Don't think i've ever seen one that big though.


...no it isn't. :p
2005-08-28, 2:42 PM #14
Yes. It is. I'm constantly swating them when they fly around me with their lacking sense of direction :p
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2005-08-28, 2:42 PM #15
Thrawn is correct. We got dem crane flies here in Texuhs. They get pretty damn big, by which I mean 3 inches max. That thing is like a.......god among insects or whatever.
2005-08-28, 2:42 PM #16
Btw dadlonglegsyses don't have wings.
2005-08-28, 2:47 PM #17
except... they do.
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2005-08-28, 3:06 PM #18
...daddy long legs are spiders. They aren't even insects.
2005-08-28, 3:08 PM #19
They aren't spiders actually. They're arachnids, but not spiders.
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2005-08-28, 3:29 PM #20
Daddy-long-legs are commonly known as "the spider that can't bite humans" even if it isn't a spider.

Tis the only arachnid I let live.
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2005-08-28, 3:34 PM #21
...what?
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2005-08-28, 3:54 PM #22
But this is a daddy long legs.
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2005-08-28, 3:54 PM #23
Whatever it is, it should die a very painful death for the invasion of your home.
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2005-08-28, 4:07 PM #24
The things with wings are often referred to as Mayflies, Mosquitohawks, crane flies, daddylonglegs, and a bunch of other names, but they're all the same bug. A couple other bugs share these names (most notably, the arachnid daddylonglegs posted above), too, but you're all arguing over names that mean the same thing :p
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2005-08-28, 4:11 PM #25
The only Daddy Long Legs I've ever seen has been the spider.

That thing is huge, you should've kept it and pinned it to something. Your grandchildren will want to see it.
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2005-08-28, 4:13 PM #26
THIS is a mayfly.

THIS is a crane fly.

THIS is a daddy long-legs.

None of them are the same bug. They are all different. See? :o
2005-08-28, 4:15 PM #27
What? Now we have 3 different "daddy longlegs" definitions. :p
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2005-08-28, 4:16 PM #28
Dude I have a bug handbook on my desk! Listen to ME! :p
2005-08-28, 4:20 PM #29
Ooo hell, no it wasn't a mosquito. :eek: It didn't have fangs or a stinger or anything of the like. I like to call'em skeeter-eaters cause they devour mosquitos.....I think. :confused:

Well we put it outside, so I'm kinda worried it's gonna lurk around and come back inside. If it does, I'll probably take a steak knife to it. ;)

Wait...I've always been told that daddy-long-legs is just another name for Harvestmen, which are simple house or garden dwelling arachnids (technically not "spiders" because they don't weave webs). I've come across many in my day, and always call them daddy-long-legs. Huh.
2005-08-28, 4:25 PM #30
Originally posted by Delphian:
Wait...I've always been told that daddy-long-legs is just another name for Harvestmen, which are simple house or garden dwelling arachnids (technically not "spiders" because they don't weave webs). I've come across many in my day, and always call them daddy-long-legs. Huh.


I think that's right, actually.

Either way, that's a crazy awesome bug you found!
2005-08-28, 6:06 PM #31
Daddy long legs can get huge. I've saw one in Mississippi on wall that must have been a foot long. I'm glad they're not poisonous.
2005-08-28, 6:25 PM #32
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
Daddy long legs can get huge. I've saw one in Mississippi on wall that must have been a foot long. I'm glad they're not poisonous.


Actually they are poisonous... but there is no way that it could have been a foot long. That's simply impossible.
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2005-08-28, 6:52 PM #33
Originally posted by kyle90:
Actually they are poisonous... but there is no way that it could have been a foot long. That's simply impossible.


Here's an interesting discourse on that subject.
2005-08-28, 8:27 PM #34
Originally posted by Thrawn42689:
THIS is a mayfly.

THIS is a crane fly.

THIS is a daddy long-legs.

None of them are the same bug. They are all different. See? :o



... But they're all commonly referred to as the same handful of names :p
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2005-08-29, 2:49 AM #35
I think it's just another one of those UK/US differences. When someone talks about a daddy long legs here it's pretty much always about a crane fly. We call those long legged spider types harvest men although you don't see 'em that often.
2005-08-29, 3:20 AM #36
The biggest insect I've seen was a moth that was about 6 inches long, and you should've seen the dust/fluff that flew off it when it got swiped with a newspaper. That was in Spain. I've never seen anything very big here in England.
2005-08-29, 11:30 AM #37
Originally posted by Recusant:
I think it's just another one of those UK/US differences. When someone talks about a daddy long legs here it's pretty much always about a crane fly. We call those long legged spider types harvest men although you don't see 'em that often.


Sorta like us having the midge and oyu not having a name for it.
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2005-08-29, 11:40 AM #38
I have these odd three-inch-long centipede things in my basement. They live in the walls. I actually rarely see them, only when one sneaks out of a crack in the wall and runs a lap of the walls before re-entering the crack. This happens about once a month. They're very fast, and my only consolation is the fact that the thing'll be dead in a couple of days. And yet there must be hundreds of them beacuse they keep turning up.

I really hope they just stay in the basement. :/
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2005-08-29, 11:55 AM #39
Originally posted by Thrawn42689:
Here's an interesting discourse on that subject.


:o That'll teach me to not check snopes before posting...
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2005-08-29, 12:34 PM #40
hehe
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