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AlteredAgain
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: unbeliever]
#7644514 - 11/16/07 02:33 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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unbeliever said: Bugs are neat.
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Cowgold
Bullshit


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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: pong]
#7644535 - 11/16/07 02:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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pong said:
making restarted assumptions again?
you seriously need to work on your educated guessing skills. cus i am no idiot.
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unbeliever
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Cowgold]
#7644549 - 11/16/07 02:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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pong
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: unbeliever]
#7644553 - 11/16/07 02:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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that thing is awsomE!!!!!
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Cowgold
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: unbeliever]
#7644568 - 11/16/07 02:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Looks like the type writer bug from naked lunch.
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unbeliever
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Cowgold]
#7644588 - 11/16/07 02:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cowgold said: Looks like the type writer bug from naked lunch.
Heh, it's actually a goliath beetle, but you're right. Mantids are cool too.
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haymaker
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: unbeliever]
#7644595 - 11/16/07 02:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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earwigs are dirty. theres something not right about them, i couldnt pick one up if i wanted to. Same with millipeeds actually... UGH!
spiders/ants/snails/beetles/worms/caterpillers all fine... but not earwigs. even woodlice are nice than them.
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Psilobuds
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Individual]
#7644926 - 11/16/07 04:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Individual said: Some kid told me when I was little that earwigs love to climb into your ears. Where they proceed into your brain and they eat it. And then when you have dropped dead they come out of your nose. I was afraid of them for a long time.
lol same here
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Maverick
Lover of Earwigs!




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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Psilobuds]
#7644941 - 11/16/07 04:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'M NOT DIRTY! >:0
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VisionsToReality
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Maverick]
#7645023 - 11/16/07 05:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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earwig mommies are cool because they tend to their young with brood care
what's all this insect-o-phobia? some humans...sheesh! if they only new the wonders of the insect world...would they think differently?
side notes from the days of entomology class - -house flies can beat their wings roughly 200 times PER SECOND (WTF!?)
-insects are the most diverse group of living creatures on the planet
-it is estimated there are 3-80million species on the planet -but we know of only 950,000 species
-there are 350,000 species of known beetles
-honeybees communicate the quality and location of food by doing "waggle dances" (they go in a circle and then go through the circle they made and as they go thru they shake their butts. the angle/direction of this "waggle" when they cut thru their imaginary circle signifies the location of food with respect to the sun) To see a video of this, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg
-some wasps lay eggs in caterpillars, to hatch and devour the caterpillars from the inside
-Flying insects can tilt their wings roughly 60% before stalling -Airplanes can only manage 20%
-Male dragon flies, before inseminating the female, will reach into the female's spermatheca (its sperm-holding pouch) where other male sperm might be, and packs it down using a special appendage, so that there is room for its sperm. Thus, the mating male's sperm will be at the top of the spermatheca, and will have the greatest chance of being used, before the other males' sperm.
-Some plants have extrafloural nectaries that have evolved for the sole purpose of providing certain insect species nectar so that the insects (for example, ants) can use it as a food source while at the same time protect the tree
-Insects communicate thru a variety of chemical signals. Some moth antennae can detect a single molecule of a sex pheromone
-Many species of plants throughout the world rely on ONE species of insect to pollinate it. That means if this insect is to go extinct, the plant will too, because they have evolved a co-dependence
I can go on and on...there's just too many cool things to list..but if you're interested, this is great high-quality film on creatures of the undergrowth (insects and more) http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=794051251428&z=y&btob=Y&bnit=HZ%20HZ
ps: did you know spiders are not insects?
PEACE and long live the insect world, they'll be here longer than any human ever is
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Edited by VisionsToReality (11/16/07 05:07 PM)
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kake
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I kid you not, one time i left my swim trunks hanging to dry outside and grabbed them the next day, put them on, and went off to the beach. Somehow, about 30 of them crawled in, and didn't mind when I put'em on I guess - probably because I was warm and didn't pinch me while they hung out in my trunks. But when I hit the water, they got PISSED! I thought I got stung by a jellyfish or something at first... scared the crap out of me.
The earwigs pinched me scrotum. So I killed them. The End.
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: kake]
#7645603 - 11/16/07 07:58 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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damn
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aDoS
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Maverick]
#7645619 - 11/16/07 08:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I killed an earwig last week, and I'll kill again as soon as I see another. Someday I want to get thousands of earwigs, and just step on all of them! KILL ALL EARWIGS!
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: aDoS]
#7645633 - 11/16/07 08:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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OK, I have to admit that gray rascal is kind of cute.
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Maverick
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: 5tone]
#7647078 - 11/17/07 09:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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aDoS, what's with the hostility? Perhaps you should talk to a psychiatrist about your urges to kill innocent baby earwigs?
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spun




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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: unbeliever]
#7647279 - 11/17/07 11:05 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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im not a big fan of earwigs, but they are pretty cool up close.
One crawled on my shoe at some beach where i was smoking hash and i thought of Maverick haha
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Syle
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Maverick]
#7647291 - 11/17/07 11:10 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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DRTMaverick said: Yes, that's right, I love earwigs! They're the coolest insect in the world - gentle little creatures of the earth, with pinchers on their butts! So versitile, I wish I had a pair of pinchers on my ass! If I ever went to prison I'd be safe!
 Hello guys! *waves antenna*
Let's all contribute earwig stories here.
FUCK. YOU. I hate these little bastards. For the longest time, these pieces of rotten trash infested my house. We sprayed and sprayed and sprayed and they still came back. They are on the same plane of bastard-dom as roaches are for other people.
PS: that FUCK YOU was just meant in jest
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Syle]
#7647294 - 11/17/07 11:11 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh yeah, and i was told they crawl in your ear and eat your brain too. ytf are they called earwigs?
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ltd



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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: Maverick]
#7647317 - 11/17/07 11:22 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I caught one of those and imprisoned it in a pint jar once.
It lived without food or water for at least 2 months.
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Caribou_Lou
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Re: I love Earwigs! [Re: ltd]
#7647406 - 11/17/07 11:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Lieutenant_Dan said: I caught one of those and imprisoned it in a pint jar once.
It lived without food or water for at least 2 months.
haha that's awesome
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