Millipede Madness

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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

Here I posted a picture of one of my old tarantula mountings, from when I used to keep several:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=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.

[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

[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.




Doing my best for jobob here.

[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! Little bunny...BIG attitude! She'd probably kick the poodle and lab out...."My bed!!"

[bikerz]

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

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

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Exactly!!

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

You're right- sorry!

The lovely Mole Cricket: