Millipede Madness

[Trekhawk]

Ok so nobody told me that living in the Perth Hills I would be having a lot of lovely visits from the resident Millipede population.

Now I have nothing against Millipedes but I would rather they stayed outside. Last night when putting my three sons to bed we walked past the back door and a dozen or so were on the floor. I got rid of those but opened the back door to investigate and holly crap they were everywhere. I don't think I have ever seen so many bugs in one place.

After talking to some locals they laughed and said welcome to the hills. Apparently after the first rain they are pretty bad and yes it rained hard yesterday but even at drier times are still around in large numbers.

I don't want to spray any nasty poison around and from what the internet tells me that does not work well anyway. So girls if you have any other tips for me I would really appreciate it.

Im going to the hardware store today to get some better seals for around the doors so hopefully that will help keep them out.

[jobob]

Oh, yech! You poor thing!

Don't post pictures, m'kay??? :cool:

[maillotpois]

Oh no - do post pictures!!! :D

I posted my turkeys! And we get some millipedes here. I'd like to compare.

[yellow]

Aw, c'mon TH, you could keep them as pets (http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Bug,%20Millipedes%20II.htm)! They like watermelon! Just think, you could all sit around together and spit seeds!

But perhaps you should take the test (http://www.petco.com/caresheets/invertebrates/Millipede_GiantAfrican.pdf) to determine if a millipede is the right companion animal for you.

[aka_kim]

Oh. My. God. Four to 11 inches!? Live 3 years!? 200+ legs!? That's what you have inside?? :eek: :eek:

Welcome home, mate. :p

[crazycanuck]

Who says the wildlife in Australia isn't exciting :eek:

Do you have any bandicoots in your area? I've always searched for them when visiting friends in Roleystone..:o

I don't like buggies..

[Trekhawk]

Aw, c'mon TH, you could keep them as pets (http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Bug,%20Millipedes%20II.htm)! They like watermelon! Just think, you could all sit around together and spit seeds!

But perhaps you should take the test (http://www.petco.com/caresheets/invertebrates/Millipede_GiantAfrican.pdf) to determine if a millipede is the right companion animal for you.

Ok yellow now I feel a little ill. That is just wrong and very creepy.

Kim - the Millipedes at our place are nowhere near as big as that. If I had something as big as that coming inside I would be moving tomorrow.

CC - I am told they are around but I am yet to see one.

I went for a ride today and they were all over the road. Pretty much the entire ride had lovely squishy sound effects. My poor bike will never be the same. Just to add another dimension to this gross story they stink when you squish them.

[bouncybouncy]

just....ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!

[Starfish]

A couple of weeks ago on the Discovery channel, there was a show about critters in Australia. Something sensational like the top 10 poisonous or dangerous or something. Various spiders, snakes, ocean things, etc.

I went to bed wondering how anyone in the whole of Australia ever goes to sleep at night? :confused:

I kinda mean it. I mean, some spider that has teeth/prongs/whatever that stick into your leg so hard you have to pull the thing off your leg before you rush to the hospital? In the house? :eek:

I would be a friggin' basket case. You folks are tough.

Are the millipedes poisonous?

[Geonz]

Hopefully this is just a seasonal thing. I don't like those particular critters either. Blleeccch.

[bikerz]

This whole thread just reads to me like the opening scenes in a new mega-monster horror movie "Attack of the Millipedes!"

Just don't go down into your cellar at night to investigate some strange sound (the pitter-patter of millions of tiny feet?) with a flickering flashlight. :eek:

(The only thing worse - to me - than large, hairy insects are way too many small multi-legged ones. Ugh. I'm with Jobob - no pictures!)

[SadieKate]

potato bugs!! :eek::eek::eek: These give me the creeps.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b310/SadieKate/potatobug_17.jpg

[firenze11]

All we get is ladybugs and cluster flies twice a year here. I don't think I could handle millipedes! Thinking about them makes me want to do a creepy bug wiggle.

I dunno about how to keep them out. We heard about menthol for ladybugs but that only worked a little bit - apparently they hate the smell. Could be a last ditch effort if you don't find anything else. Do millipedes have a sense of smell???

[jobob]

Okey dokey, I'm creeped out now. :p :p

[SadieKate]

Are the millipedes poisonous?Only centipedes, and then only mildly.

Editing: actually millipedes are poisonous if you eat them. I think I'll pass.

You should read Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country (http://www.amazon.com/Sunburned-Country-Bill-Bryson/dp/0767903862). He had pretty much the same reaction to Australia's flora and fauna as you do (and I would).

Put this on your itinerary for your next trip down under: Australian Venom Zoo (http://www.tarantulas.com.au/index.php).

[7rider]

potato bugs!! :eek::eek::eek: These give me the creeps.


Camel crickets!!!! :eek:

{{{{{shiver}}}}

But...I do have a pic of a big ol' millipede from our backyard that looks frighteningly similar to some posted in yellow's links...

[jobob]

hundreds of legs: poisonous

thousands of legs: not poisonous. Unless you eat them.

check. :cool:

[jobob]

So girls if you have any other tips for me I would really appreciate it.

I think this is where snap would say "poke 'em with a stick and run like hell"

:D

[Tuckervill]

I live in Arkansas. Know what people not from Arkansas are afraid of when they come here? Chiggers, ticks and snakes.

Like we're swimming in them. My mother used to make me cover my head on Brownie outings, because she, being from Chicago, told me that ticks are sitting in the trees just looking for a warm blooded mammal to jump into your hair. I've always had this picture of ticks with tiny parachutes waiting for just the right moment to jump on my head.

We just don't go where the chiggers, ticks and snakes are. It's not like they can't be avoided!

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

You guys are a bunch of BABIES!! afraid of mole crickets and lowly poor potato bugs? PFFFFTT!! BABIES!! :D

Here I posted a picture of one of my old tarantula mountings, from when I used to keep several:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=22162&highlight=tarantula

When I was about 12 I had a huge millipede named Oscar. He was beautiful and fascinating...a very gentle vegetarian too. He was the size of a hockey puck when curled up. He was significantly bigger than this:
http://www.bugguy012002.com/african-millipede.jpg
Very fun little pet- no noise, no smells, no demanding traits, easy to feed and clean, gentle, interesting.
Now hissing cockroaches....hmmmm...I draw the line there. I grew up with roaches and just can't get into really huge ones as being appealing in any way. :cool:

[SadieKate]

You guys are a bunch of BABIES!! afraid of mole crickets and lowly poor potato bugs? PFFFFTT!! BABIES
Who said we were afraid of them?????

Creep and fear -- two different emotions.

-- SK who grew up with tons and tons of captive snakes

[jobob]

Thanks Lisa :p

[7rider]

Who said we were afraid of them?????

Creep and fear -- two different emotions.


Exactly!!

And it's not a mole cricket...it's a CAMEL cricket! :)

[SadieKate]

BTW, 7 rider, I love your dutch bunny avatar. I had one growing up (Winkle) who would travel all over the country with us in our camper. The ag inspectors would always goggle when they'd open the door to see a standard poodle, black lab and Winkle all curled up on the dog bed together.

[SadieKate]

I've seen mormon crickets (which are actually katydids) swarming so thickly that I thought the road was moving.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b310/SadieKate/mcricket1r.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b310/SadieKate/800px-Mormon_cricket_cannibals.jpg

Doing my best for jobob here.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Exactly!!

And it's not a mole cricket...it's a CAMEL cricket! :)

You're right- sorry!

The lovely Mole Cricket:
http://image.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2007/nov/06/1/GD5216889@Mandatory-Credit-Phot-366.jpg

[7rider]

BTW, 7 rider, I love your dutch bunny avatar. I had one growing up (Winkle) who would travel all over the country with us in our camper. The ag inspectors would always goggle when they'd open the door to see a standard poodle, black lab and Winkle all curled up on the dog bed together.

Thanks! That is Tasha...we call her the Queen of Quite-a-lot, because that's what she thinks she is! :D Little bunny...BIG attitude! She'd probably kick the poodle and lab out...."My bed!!" :p

[bikerz]

I vote for more bunny pictures and fewer creepy-crawly pictures!

(Oh, wait, this is a creepy-crawly thread...)

[snapdragen]

I think this is where snap would say "poke 'em with a stick and run like hell"

:D

Eggzactelly!

So....I'm guessing you wouldn't be up for a trip to the Insect Zoo?

[Blueberry]

Eggzactelly!

So....I'm guessing you wouldn't be up for a trip to the Insect Zoo?

Thankfully, the insect zoo was closed on our last Smithsonian visit. DH and his brother couldn't wait to go. ICK!!!!

More furry pictures, please. 7rider - are your bunnies house bunnies??

CA

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

More furry pictures, please.

CA

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/buggin/timeline/tread/gallery/tarantula_lg.jpg

[7rider]

More furry pictures, please. 7rider - are your bunnies house bunnies??

CA

I think, Lisa, she was refurring (bah!) to this kind....

Yup...my buns are house buns. My home is their castle!

[OakLeaf]

We just don't go where the chiggers, ticks and snakes are. It's not like they can't be avoided!

Welllllll, they can be avoided, if you never leave the house and you don't have any pets who'll bring them in with them...

Ticks are one of the few things that freak me out pretty good, but it doesn't mean I won't work in my garden, and the brush on the driveway still needs to be cut whether I want to do it or not, etc., etc., etc.

[Tuckervill]

But they're not sitting there waiting to jump out at you, yanno? You might get a tick and you might not. Wear your long sleeved shirts and tuck your pants in your socks and give yourself a check before you come in the house.

Frontline keeps the ticks off my animals, thank heavens!

Karen

[GLC1968]

Jeeze people...try living in FL for awhile. Bugs there grow to the size of small children. :p

Thankfully, most of them aren't poisionous.


My husband was stationed in Australia for a few years and now he's terrified of spiders and snakes. Nothing funnier than a big tough guy running and screaming like a girl at the sight of a small spider in the bathtub. ;)

[Skierchickie]

Yeah, well Frontline works on our ticks just enough for the darn critters to leap off the doggie when she comes in the house. They just say "blech - this doesn't taste good". So we end up with them crawling on us, instead. They've been bad the last couple of years. On the bright side, I'm becoming desensitized. We didn't have them this far north until recently. However, growing up on a farm in Indiana, Dad would send me out to mow the barnyard and old orchard area on the tractor, and told me to always wear a hat and be careful under the trees, because they'd drop on you from the trees.

Yuck: spiders, ticks, millipedes, centipedes, leeches, ...... Creep me right out. I really am afraid of spiders (I have more "growing up on the farm" stories :eek:). I think the worst was the pet tarantula my sister brought home from work - she left it with us when she moved out. It only escaped once, well, twice in one day.

Why do I read these threads???:(

Oh, and I don't want to try living in Florida! Geeze, heat, humidity, and now bugs!

[Tuckervill]

We watched the movie "Enchanted" yesterday. Princess has rapport with all the little woodland animals, yada yada...except in New York City, she summonses the pidgeons, the rats....and the COCKROACHES!

EWWWWWWW when they ate all the scum off the bathtub! :::shiver::::

Karen

[7rider]

Okay.
Just so Lisa doesn't think I'm all cute and cuddly and stuff....
Here's something from our "critter file" - yes...all the weird and wonderful living things we photograph in our back yard end up in a dedicated file folder on our hard drive called "Critters." -

[Trekhawk]

Only centipedes, and then only mildly.

Editing: actually millipedes are poisonous if you eat them. I think I'll pass.



I will pass too although I do have enough around to feed a family of five for a year.:eek:

[Jolt]

In college, one of the dorms (Riley Hall) had these really long-legged, fast-moving brownish centipedes that we all called "Riley bugs". They had a tendency to creep people out--one time this girl on my floor suddenly let out this blood-curdling scream and when everyone else on the floor ran to investigate it turned out that she had just seen a rather large specimen scurry past her feet. Sorry I don't have a picture, but if you google "house centipede", which is what these bugs really were, you'll find plenty. Apparently they're actually beneficial--they eat other bugs like cockroach larvae and other pests. Even so, it's pretty darn hard to get past the ick factor!!!

[Jolt]

We watched the movie "Enchanted" yesterday. Princess has rapport with all the little woodland animals, yada yada...except in New York City, she summonses the pidgeons, the rats....and the COCKROACHES!

EWWWWWWW when they ate all the scum off the bathtub! :::shiver::::

Karen

Oh, I thought that scene was absolutely hilarious!!! The song was pretty cute too.

[OakLeaf]

We watched the movie "Enchanted" yesterday. Princess has rapport with all the little woodland animals, yada yada...except in New York City, she summonses the pidgeons, the rats....and the COCKROACHES!

EWWWWWWW when they ate all the scum off the bathtub! :::shiver::::

Karen

You'd love "Joe's Apartment," then. :D

Jolt, your college story reminds me of my college co-op kitchen. Every time someone turned the oven on, there would be this VERY LOUD scurrying noise as all the roaches evacuated for cooler quarters. :eek::p:D

[crazycanuck]

:eek: Oakleaf eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww..yuuiuuuccckkk

Long post sorry...

Speaking of being eaten alive..Some of our company's scientists do varying field surveys in the NE of Western Australia and one of thier main safety issues is..crocs.. Yep..not the sun, not weird insects or jellyfish...crocs..

The small spiders that inhabit the dark areas of our fence are normally Redbacks or Whitetails.. Cool but not as freaky as a Huntsman spider..:eek: I've heard although 'huntsman''s aren't poisonous, they kill more people than other spiders each year..becuase of fright!!!

There's a "lake" (Herdsman lake)near our old neighbourhood(not in the boonies) and there are warning signs around the lake that say "beware of tiger snakes". Ian came accross one while biking around the lake one day & he moved out of it's way rather quickly..esp after he read more about them online!!! :eek:

Yes Australia has some rather poisonous creatures but you need some excitement in life right?

If you don't bother the creatures, they won't bother you..

*phew* long post over

[Jolt]

You'd love "Joe's Apartment," then. :D

Jolt, your college story reminds me of my college co-op kitchen. Every time someone turned the oven on, there would be this VERY LOUD scurrying noise as all the roaches evacuated for cooler quarters. :eek::p:D

Now THAT is disgusting!!! I don't think I'd want to do much cooking in that kitchen--yuck, yuck, yuck!

[SadieKate]

Hey, TH, we want pictures of your centipedes!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Now THAT is disgusting!!! I don't think I'd want to do much cooking in that kitchen--yuck, yuck, yuck!

You do what you have to do. :cool:

[jobob]

Yep, I've lived in my share of cockroach-infested apartments when I was a student in Boston (and no BSG, I didn't cower in the corner like a baby :rolleyes:). You get used to things when you need to.

[mimitabby]

and I thought Millipede Madness was a BIKE RIDE!!!

[Jolt]

You do what you have to do. :cool:

That's true, but it's still yucky! :p Didn't anyone make any attempt to get rid of the roaches?

[OakLeaf]

That's true, but it's still yucky! :p Didn't anyone make any attempt to get rid of the roaches?

Oh, you know, it was the '70s, it was a vegetarian co-op. No poisons! Anything cooked got pretty well sterilized I suppose, anyway no one got food poisoning while I was there :p

[jobob]

Where I lived it would have been pretty much impossible, considering the surrounding apts - so I used lots of tupperware.

[Trekhawk]

and I thought Millipede Madness was a BIKE RIDE!!!

LOL - perhaps I could start one up. I squished enough riding the other day so the name would fit.:D

[Trekhawk]

SK - when Pete gets home I will get him to take a few.

Last night it did not seem to be as bad but maybe that is just wishful thinking. The buggers are still coming inside but not in as many numbers.

[Starfish]

Yes Australia has some rather poisonous creatures but you need some excitement in life right?


I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread. :p

That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.

[Trekhawk]

I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread. :p

That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.

YIKES!!:eek:
Scorpions freak me out - you are a very brave girl.

[Tuckervill]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

[Wahine]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.:eek::eek::eek:

Ever since then, centipedes and millipedes creep me out. Better you than me TH.

Oh, it looked like this and was about 6 inches long. That was a tinyone by Maui standards.

[Trekhawk]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.:eek::eek::eek:



YUK!!!!:eek::eek:
That story and pic make me feel a little ill. Thank goodness the Millipedes are pretty small.....lots of them but small.

[Jen-Jen]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!


http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/Jenntick/camelspider01.jpg
The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

[Jolt]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!


http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/Jenntick/camelspider01.jpg
The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

UGH...normally spiders really don't bother me, but those look like some nasty critters--especially since they bite!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq.

Ok so yeah even I would run screaming from those babies! :eek:

[Blueberry]

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/buggin/timeline/tread/gallery/tarantula_lg.jpg

Very funny:p:p

I have the heebee jeebies now:(

It is almost cute....almost...
:p:p

[Blueberry]

I think, Lisa, she was refurring (bah!) to this kind....

Yup...my buns are house buns. My home is their castle!

Awwwwww....they're beautiful:) Your black and white one reminds me of one we were luck enough to share about 8 years with. The neighbors bought her for their kid, and let her run loose. We took her in - she wasn't a house bun, but the screened porch was converted for her pleasure (complete with a heated box). And she managed to come in a fair amount (like every time mom wasn't looking:p). They are truly sweet animals:)

[jobob]

more furry, less leggy :)

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k186/jobob22/stuff/funny-pictures-sixties-easter-bunny.jpg

[Tuckervill]

My poor son grew up being terrified of spiders...but as he got older he kinda got over it. Then he went to Iraq, and I just had to warn him about the camel spiders! I think he was more afraid of that than getting shot! But he said he never saw one the whole time he was there.

Karen

[bmccasland]

Very funny:p:p

I have the heebee jeebies now:(

It is almost cute....almost...
:p:p

But Wolf Spider eyes glow a beautiful emerald green if you shine a flashlight on them at night.

don't ask how I know this tidbit...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

more furry, less leggy :)

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k186/jobob22/stuff/funny-pictures-sixties-easter-bunny.jpg

OK I have to admit that at first glance I thought this was a picture of the BACK end of a bunny! :eek: :eek: :eek: :cool: :cool:

[7rider]

OK I have to admit that at first glance I thought this was a picture of the BACK end of a bunny! :eek: :eek: :eek: :cool: :cool:

Well...the back end of a bunny IS veeeerrry cute.....

[Trekhawk]

Oh those pictures are so cute.:)

You know I mean the bunnies right?
The others are just ICKY.

[SadieKate]

So, where're the pictures of your critters? Is Pete the only one who can operate a camera? Surely there are other volunteers in the house who could help.:)

[bikerz]

"It was the best of threads, it was the worst of threads..."

OK - the tail end of that bunny mid-hop is one of the cutest things I have ever seen. Not to mention the 60's bunny.

On the other hand - There is not an "eek" emoticon big enough to convey how creeped out I am by those the camel spiders.

I keep thinking: OK that's it for me on this thread - no more huge furry spiders. Then I get suckered back in by the bunnies, only to be blindsided by the HUGE SCREAMING spiders that CHASE you. Why do I keep coming back? No one's forcing me to look at this thread. It's like I've signed myself up for some sort of weird psych experiment. :o How much can I take?

[snapdragen]

They have their own website!

http://www.camelspiders.net/

And their top speed is only 10 mph...

:eek:

[lph]

AAGH! Finally got around to reading this thread. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! :eek:

And to think I get mildly creeped out by the very small spiders that tend to swarm over our back patio, Harry Potter in the Forbidden Forest-like. And the single largish spider that I shook out of a curtain once that went audibly THUMP on the floor and scuttled away alarmingly fast. We don't have ANYTHING remotely as creepy as the bugs y'all have posted. One mildly poisonous snake, that's all, otherwise it's large furry non-creepy mammals out there.

[DirtDiva]

http://weta.boarsnest.net/coverpic.jpg

[snapdragen]

OK DD - what the hell is that! :eek:

[SadieKate]

They have their own website!

http://www.camelspiders.net/

And their top speed is only 10 mph...

:eek:OK, there's training motivation.

[DDH]

OMG, I knew I should not have come here. I don't mind spiders so much, but all the other creepy crawlies freak me out. I ecspecially cannot stand june bugs and crickets and things that jump at you are fly into your head. I know they don't bite, but the feel of them on my skin or in my hair just gives me the hebee jebees. My skin is now crawling.

:eek:

[DirtDiva]

It's a giant weta. Luckily for you they're quite rare. Here's one to scale...

http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLand-Sky/8651/photo/giant_weta.jpg

[Jen-Jen]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

Did you know that granddaddy longlegs are VERY poisonous! I alway pick their little butts up and put them back out side!!!! Then my dad was watching a animal program and he learn this fact. However, my dad is a trickster and sometimes he lies to get you going, but I believe him on this. The reason no one dies from them and thankful for it is because their fangs are so hooked and too short that they can't straighten them enough to sink them into our flesh. Okay all one one....EEEEWWWWWW!

By the way....I no long pick up daddy-long-legs anymore.

[Melalvai]

My skin is now crawling.
That sensation is called "formication". I am not kidding.
I use that word in casual conversation ever chance I get.

[snapdragen]

It's a giant weta. Luckily for you they're quite rare. Here's one to scale...



Oh My God

Are you f'n kidding me?

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/snapdragen/MsgBoards/giant_weta.jpg


I like this: "The Māori name of the Giant Weta is 'wētā punga' (lumpy or jointed weta), a name that is sometimes rendered in English-language sources as 'god of ugly things'" :D

[Trekhawk]

Good God is right that thing is just freaky and creepy. Glad to hear you don't
have them wandering around in huge numbers.

I have finally identified the Millipedes we have visiting and you guessed it they are not native to Australia.
http://www.csiro.au/resources/BlackPortugueseMillipedes.html

Hey Z if you are still viewing this thread I guess that last pic didn't help with the weird psych experiment thing.

SK - I would take some snaps but well I have no idea where the camera stuff is and secondly I suck at downloading the stuff onto the computer from the camera. Sad I know but true.:o


Funnily enough I find the pics in this thread are helping me to feel less revolted by the Millipedes we have. :D

[jobob]

Glad to hear that! :cool:

[DDH]

That sensation is called "formication". I am not kidding.
I use that word in casual conversation ever chance I get.


So I can say I am Formicating? :eek: LOL :D

How funny, I think I will use it now to and see if anyone I know will have a clue!!! LOL

[bikerz]

Formicate: where etymology and entomology meet. :cool:

Trekhawk, I was suckered back in by seeing the Snap and DirtDiva had posted, and I thought - oh - maybe something I can handle. But, no. (Thanks, pals!) But I am learning - I did not follow your link about your exotic millipedes.

That weta-thing is way too big. You know, it doesn't look all that different from a giant prawn-type thing that showed up on my dinner plate at a restaurant in southern India one night :eek:, completely reinforcing my assertion that crustaceans are just giant insects of the sea.

[OakLeaf]

crustaceans are just giant insects of the sea.

Oh now you've got that jingle in my head. "What's the best lobster? Cricket of the Sea!"

[rocknrollgirl]

When I used to climb a lot, those giant millipedes were all over the rock. You would be 100 feet up off the deck going to make a sketchy move and wriggle, wriggle, one would crawl out of the rocks right in your face. Not much you could do about it. Focus past the bugs!

One time we saw a rather large snake climbing vertically right up the face about 20 feet off the ground. Now that would have given me a heart attack.

[mimitabby]

so you don't want to rub these millipeds into your eyes, as they are very irritating.. Such useful information!

[Trekhawk]

so you don't want to rub these millipeds into your eyes, as they are very irritating.. Such useful information!

LOL - yep lots of great tips. Don't rub them in your eyes, don't eat them. Ok very useful if I was tempted to put them anywhere near my face but all I want to know is how to make the buggers go away.:D

Z - I will never look at seafood the same way.:eek:

[DirtDiva]

Trekhawk, I was suckered back in by seeing the Snap and DirtDiva had posted, and I thought - oh - maybe something I can handle.
Bwahahaha. :D

[7rider]

Oh now you've got that jingle in my head. "What's the best lobster? Cricket of the Sea!"

Yum!!!!

Back in US Colonial days, I've read that people would not eat lobster....it was too bug-like and disgusting. Hmmm...on my research cruises, that was another name for lobsters..."Bugs". Crabs, too.