persese101
New member
could someone tell me what kind of bug in the video i posted..I dont know why i didnt take pics of it oh well yea i do my camera sucks!!!I am just curious of what it is nasty looking little thing..
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The Weird-O Bug thread
- Thread starter *salAMANDA88*
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VickyChaiTea
Snake enthusiast
I'm curious too, it was beautiful! All wiggly and pretty. <3
ziggybond_007
Team Laura
It's a Hag moth (Phobetron pithecium) larva.
sarae
New member
Yup! Where I was, there was an estimated 1 million+ per acre! It was crazy. You couldn't walk outside and talk on the phone or even talk to someone standing next to you without shouting because they were so noisy. Forget driving with the top down or riding a motorcycle unless you're a total masochist.
As annoying as they were, the day I went to take a nap and didn't near the rise and fall of their buzzing like waves crashing ashore, i started to miss them!
The_Thunderer
New member
Yeah... we didn't get an "invasion" of cicadas here in AZ (uhhhh, I wonder WHY... ? Considering the extreme heat, it is no wonder...). We get a few here and there... Since leaving El Paso, TX as a kid, I have really missed hearing them "en masse". 
desertanimal
2003 UB313
Awesome cicada pictures. Love them. There are many different species of cicadas, and not all are on such a long breeding cycle. Plus, within a species, there may be animals that are not all on the same year cycle--like the two-year cycle in salmon. Salmon come back to breed in the NW rivers every year, but individual cohorts of salmon only mature and come back to breed on a two year cycle. So though salmon have a two-year breeding cycle, SOME are breeding every year.
It's not the heat, Fred. Southern Madagascar is just as hot as here, and they have annual cicada seasons that would put any cicada cycle in the US to shame. Headache-inducing cicada cycles. Cicadas that make researchers wear earplugs to work all day long. Cicadas you can't hear people talk to you over. Cicada cycles you pray will end. Must be the aridity here that's not as suitable for large populations. Which makes sense. They feed on tree sap. We don't have large quantities of that kind of food around here.
BTW, they're very tasty fried. Seriously. They taste like fried salmon skin. Very tasty. But chew them up for a while and spit out the parts you can't chew up. We don't have teeth that are very well suited for processing exoskeletons, and they have some pretty serious exoskeletons.
It's not the heat, Fred. Southern Madagascar is just as hot as here, and they have annual cicada seasons that would put any cicada cycle in the US to shame. Headache-inducing cicada cycles. Cicadas that make researchers wear earplugs to work all day long. Cicadas you can't hear people talk to you over. Cicada cycles you pray will end. Must be the aridity here that's not as suitable for large populations. Which makes sense. They feed on tree sap. We don't have large quantities of that kind of food around here.
BTW, they're very tasty fried. Seriously. They taste like fried salmon skin. Very tasty. But chew them up for a while and spit out the parts you can't chew up. We don't have teeth that are very well suited for processing exoskeletons, and they have some pretty serious exoskeletons.
The_Thunderer
New member
Thanks for the info, Steph! Good to know.
As for tasting one... While I am usually one who is willing to eat almost any food, I think I'll leave the "salmon skin tasting cicadas" for everyone else. LOL. I'd rather just have them make some serious noise around the house!
As for tasting one... While I am usually one who is willing to eat almost any food, I think I'll leave the "salmon skin tasting cicadas" for everyone else. LOL. I'd rather just have them make some serious noise around the house!
sarae
New member
And if you have a shellfish allergy, do NOT try this. I read many reports of people having the same reaction to cicadas as they do to shellfish. Wonder if that has any connection to the "fried salmon skin" taste? hmm...
oneirogenesis
become passers-by
Got some shots of a pair of flies on my windowsill. I love green bottle flies. Not only are they beautiful, but their larvae are used in maggot therapy; since they consume necrotic tissue and ignore healthy flesh, sterile maggots can be placed on a wound to clean it very effectively.
Fly conversation:
Run away!:
Fly conversation:
Run away!:
desertanimal
2003 UB313
These little "fluffbugs" are a nymph stage of some leafhoppers.
And I have no idea what these caterpillars grew up to become, but they are the wackiest caterpillars I've ever seen.
And I have no idea what these caterpillars grew up to become, but they are the wackiest caterpillars I've ever seen.