Calling the resident Zooladyist!!!

[Milky Bar Kid]

Was just sitting in my room there with the window open when I heard my crash cymbal making a wee sort of *TING* noise and then I heard wings and saw what I thought was a HUGE wasp however, upon it being exterminated (Sorry but my dad is badly allergic to wasps and I had the dog upstairs) by my brother, we saw it was this:

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae218/milkybarkid196/IMAG0191.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae218/milkybarkid196/IMAG0190.jpg

So....can you tell me what it is? It looked like it had a big stinger and I was rather scared of it...

[Hyweldrums]

That'll be a Maybug, that's what I know them as anyway. I hate them.

[Milky Bar Kid]

I'm not normally scared by beetles and such like, only spiders, but I am not ashamed to say I cacked my pants at that! Mainly because I thought it was a HUGE wasp!

[Bibio]

and its more amusing name is the cockchafer.

[Jayneflakes]

Awwwwww, tis a ickle may bug. Lovely little things and quite pretty too. Make one hell of a mess if you hit one on the motorway!

Just one question, is that a very glossy carpet or did it land in your porridge?! ;-)

Love from Aunty Jayne.
XXXXX

[Milky Bar Kid]

It just looks glossy cos I was so close with my phone and the bright LED flash on the pale carpet!

Yeh, now I know they don't sting I wouldn't be as quick to scream for my bro!

[Treacle]

Bloody Maybugs yucky little bleeders. Ive been attacked and dive bombed by the them more times than I can count. One of the only little down sides to living next to a wood in an urban area.

[Milky Bar Kid]

It's a beastie night...

Just spent the last half an hour perched on the edge of my bed armed with a drumstick (Vic Firth 7AN if you are interested), can of deodorant and a trainer in the war against a reasonably big spider....the spider has apparently made good its escape however, a large quantity of fly spray has been dispensed in its general direction.....

[davepreston]

our resident zooladyologist is currently of the grind on cragy island fyi (aka stower)
drink woman fags drink

[maviczap]

Round these parts they're called Billywitches

[dizzyblonde]

our resident zooladyologist is currently of the grind on cragy island fyi (aka stower)
drink woman fags drink

Skomer is the island. And stop using my phrases or I shall ask you if you wanna cuppa tea.....go on go on go on go on:p

[andrewsmith]

our resident zooladyologist is currently of the grind on cragy island fyi (aka stower)
drink woman fags drink

http://photos-p.friendster.com/photos/51/70/1010715/239525247829m.jpg

[Geodude]

I have never seen one of them giant beasties before, looks scary. Now if it had been an earwig i would have followed through on the spot :smt103

[wyrdness]

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer), you can even eat them...

In some areas and times, cockchafers were even served as food. A 19th century recipe from France for cockchafer soup reads: "roast one pound of cockchafers without wings and legs in sizzling butter, then cook them in a chicken soup, add some veal liver and serve with chives on a toast". And a German newspaper from Fulda from the 1920s tells of students eating sugar-coated cockchafers. A cockchafer stew is referred to in W.G. Sebald's novel The Emigrants.

So just coat it in sugar for a crunchy treat.

[Jayneflakes]

Mini beasts are awesome.

I had a cuddle with one of these a few years back. They make lovely pets!

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/scorpion-live-without-food-or-water-2.jpg

What I really miss though is my lass Ruby, the Honduran Curly Hair.

http://www.bighairyspiders.com/pix/curly3.jpg

Like I said, mini beasts are great. :smt007

I think that these are beautiful

http://i1.treknature.com/photos/10286/dscn9053crpsmall.jpg

and what is not to like abut this little chappie?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WRI8Ai9b018/TaWudSKKGqI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/2ZGmnOYFRVc/s400/earwig.jpg

[dizzyblonde]

Did anyone see Gordon Ramsey catching and eating Tarantulas last night.......ewwwwwwwww!!

[Geodude]

Oh great earwig ive just shat myself cheers jayne :pale:

[Jayneflakes]

Oh great earwig ive just shat myself cheers jayne :pale:

awwww. :smt056

*passes wet wipes and a cork!*

[Geodude]

awwww. :smt056

*passes wet wipes and a cork!*

Fankoo :D

[dizzyblonde]

I didn't spot that......I'm with Geo, hiding behind the sofa for when it disappears from view!

[Geodude]

Hehe dizz i once stood on the loo seat screaming like a girl while emptying a whole bottle of toilet duck onto an earwig who just kept coming at me like the terminator :smt103 my ex missus came in and rescued me :D

[dizzyblonde]

For some reason once a year we get earwigs in the bathroom(its downstairs) my lad was in the shower and he was screaming like a girl, he found one was having a shower with him.......then I had to scream like a girl, cause I was the one who had to remove it!
I don't like showers, so having a shower fully clothed from your lad flapping his arms around with soap suds everywhere, trying to catch a slippery earwig isn't funny either!

[Geodude]

I would have to have left him fend for himself im afraid :pale: My fear of earwigs came from when i was a kid in dumbarton there was a big bit of rough land on Aitkenbar circle/Braeside drive before they tidied it up and built a kids park and houses on it (pegs will know it) well i was climbing on an old bit of wooden fencing and it broke apart covering me in loads of the little blighters :pale: and the trauma has stayed with me ever since 'shudder'

[DaveyF]

Don't like bugs. Scary little blighters, all of which would kill you in the worst way thay could imagine if they had the chance. In fact I was in Thailand a couple of years ago and I'm pretty sure a locust did it's best to give me a heart attack and make off with my lunch.

[Paul the 6th]

Mini beasts are awesome.
and what is not to like abut this little chappie?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WRI8Ai9b018/TaWudSKKGqI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/2ZGmnOYFRVc/s400/earwig.jpg


This might seem a little bit "out there", but maybe it's the pincers on his @rse and they're more than 3 times the size of his head?

[Geodude]

Oh come on how many times have i to sh!t myself today :pale: stop it

[Fruity-ya-ya]

Oh come on how many times have i to sh!t myself today :pale: stop it
At least someone will be happy to hear that

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o4aieg9aTNY/TTKWcC44PVI/AAAAAAAAALA/CgO0Wbulbmk/s1600/AN028_DUNG_BEETLE.jpg

[Paul the 6th]

crikey this one's trying to nick a guys watch

http://www.japanprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/geji.jpg

[dizzyblonde]

nooooooooooooooooo, my bums twitching!

[DaveyF]

crikey this one's trying to nick a guys watch

http://www.japanprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/geji.jpg

Omega Seamaster, can't say I blame it...

[Milky Bar Kid]

FOR FECKSAKE. Do you have to post pictures of spiders???? Can't even look at my own thread now.

[yorkie_chris]

Omega Seamaster, can't say I blame it...

I'd fight that bug for the guys watch. :smt050

[TamSV]

Omega Seamaster

I'm obviously not on trend. It took me a while to realise that wasn't the name of the beasty. :D No, really.

[DaveyF]

I'd fight that bug for the guys watch. :smt050

I'd be careful, apprently all 8 of it's right hooks are like bombs :eye:

[dizzyblonde]

Had one in a bottom drawer for long enough...the watch, not the bug.
Terrible piece of kit apparently, always breaking down, spent more time away being repaired than in the box, or on the wrist.
Peg got rid of it not so long ago.

[Bluefish]

Got loads of these around the garden, there having a little nap in this pic,

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu94/andysv/DSC_0048.jpg

[Bibio]

one of the scariest things i have ever seen is one of these

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8266/giantwoodwasp.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/giantwoodwasp.jpg/)

i was having a pee in the bushes up north (loch arkaig) and it landed about a foot from my manhood.

[JamesMio]

one of the scariest things i have ever seen is one of these

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8266/giantwoodwasp.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/giantwoodwasp.jpg/)

i was having a pee in the bushes up north (loch arkaig) and it landed about a foot from my manhood.

Wood wasp?

They're maaaasive, but don't sting apparently.

Not sure if this'll work from my Facebook account, but worth a try - check out the size of this thing, not sure if was a wasp or a hornet but it was ginormous!

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4708/69/70/612580096/n612580096_3206221_240888.jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4708/69/70/612580096/n612580096_3206222_4885920.jpg

That was over in France about this time a couple o' years ago.

[maviczap]

That learned it, don't drink & fly :p Or try to steal a Scotman's drink ;)

Squashed something of a similar size at my wife's relatives in Germany

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4708/69/70/612580096/n612580096_3206222_4885920.jpg

[Jayneflakes]

FOR FECKSAKE. Do you have to post pictures of spiders???? Can't even look at my own thread now.

But they are beautiful!

I was at work today and happened to pop into a large Garden centre pet shop, a place that has spiders for sale. They have a a Chilean Rose, a Red Knee and Honduran Curlies...

Wifey was most unimpressed when I told her on the phone. :(

I did get a cuddle with one of these though (http://www.clickpets.co.uk/rabbit_breed_guides/flemish_giant/)... (Linked for the squeamish) :smt082

[Bluefish]

LOL

[Milky Bar Kid]

You may think they are beautiful but you are not completely and utterly terrified by them!

[andrewsmith]

what rabbits?

[suicidesam]

one of the scariest things i have ever seen is one of these

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8266/giantwoodwasp.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/giantwoodwasp.jpg/)

i was having a pee in the bushes up north (loch arkaig) and it landed about a foot from my manhood.

In the last few years these things have been flying about quite regular up here in the slightly warmer months, I dont mind most bugs but nearly dropped a batch the first time one flew past me! :smt103 Don't give a toss even if they don't sting.. still get outta there sharp when one appears :evil:

[yorkie_chris]

Bloody hell you'd know about it if you caught one of them on the visor.

[dizzyblonde]

yeah, probably more damage than a low flying pheasant!!!