We've got Jerusalem Crickets; though the ones in Colorado aren't as scary as the ones in California that have semi-human features.
The weirdest arthropod we have here is the Solifuge. They're fairly common; but almost no one has ever heard of them.
Posted on 08/03/2016 3:51:19 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
studying the numbers, the researchers found that the average home in a wealthy neighborhood had approximately 100 different species of arthropods in it, whereas those in less expensive neighborhoods had roughly half that number.
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Arthropods apparently don’t get along with cockroaches.
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We've got Jerusalem Crickets; though the ones in Colorado aren't as scary as the ones in California that have semi-human features.
The weirdest arthropod we have here is the Solifuge. They're fairly common; but almost no one has ever heard of them.
Yes, but you really don’t want to fiddle around with those violin spiders.
“Homes in wealthier neighborhoods found to harbor more arthropod species”
Well.duh!
Not all of Australia’s critters want to kill you.
Why, this one wants to be your best friend:
http://i.imgur.com/DRUlrCg.jpg
It’s because poor people don’t live by lakes so much....
A couple of years ago, around the beginning of September, I saw a really strange THING crawling from the woods beyond my workplace. It looked like a huge moth or butterfly larva, but one I’d never seen - bright scarlet with some yellow spots, at least five inches long, and almost an inch thick.
I didn’t have a camera but tried, from memory, to find a picture of it on the web; and I couldn’t find anything indigenous to this area that really looked like it. But I learned something I’d never thought about before: sometimes, hurricane winds can pick up and deposit an insect far from its ‘homeland’, where it will finally land and lay its eggs.
(Winds move birds far away, too; there’s a story about a NC pelican that wound up on a rooftop in Nova Scotia.)
My ‘bug’ was probably something normal; but I’ve always wondered if it was a visitor from some far-off place ;-)
We don’t have large spiders here and if we did I’m sure my bug guy would kill them but anyway.......I was visiting my cousin in Arkansas and was coming through the garage and out the garage window I see this huge green spider on a web right there. I go in and tell cousins wife and she says......oh yeah don’t bother her. It’s just a garden spider. That thing was huge!!
My MIL is the same. She came down from the wilds of Pennsylvania to visit us a while back, and we took her to an entomology exhibit at the local University. I wandered away for awhile, and when I came back, one of the exhibitors had introduced her to a tarantula, which she, happily, had crawling all over her arm ;-)
Cute little fuzzy thing? (I’ve read that its bite isn’t much worse than a bee sting. It’s scorpions you have to worry about.)
They’re good company! I liked mine a lot.
We don't use pesticides either. They're all bad for human health, even pyrethrin. Not to be used unless you have a truly serious problem with a truly serious pest.
I suspect one reason you find fewer spiders in poorer neighborhoods is that residents there tend to overuse products like Raid.
Kewl.
Arthropods - the other white meat!
Crunchy - go down nicely with fava beans and a red chianti.
A thousands eyes are better than two.
Hellgomites - cool immature dragonflies or moths (forgot which). Harmless. My 4 year old granddaughter used to love holding them. The girl is fearless. Loved her mother’s 9 foot boa (and it wasn’t made of feathers).
Kids should be taught about nature and our surroundings. A backyard is a great place to start.
thump....that was a mike drop.
WHAT DO WE WANT?
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF ARTHROPOD JUSTICE!!!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
NOW!!!
They have so many legs...plenty for all.
I was frozen with fear. I think I may have started hyperventilating.
I looked it up later and was startled to find it was completely harmless. He builds an interesting web with a "banner" running through the middle. Very impressive critter.
As a kid living in Central Texas I woke up from a nap one afternoon with a scorpion on my face. Yes, I screamed. A lot.
We get a lot of those every Spring/Summer. They get to be huge(yuge!)sometimes.
Yep that’s it. Yeah she told me they’re harmless and that they watched her everyday. Lol
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