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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Aug 23, 2012 - 10:52am PT
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MH2
climber
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Aug 23, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
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that grey colored thing that killed the bumble-bee
is an assassin bug, I think
It has other common names.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 26, 2012 - 07:13pm PT
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This guy about gave the wife a heart attack in the backyard. I had to intervene on his behalf...
He was a good three inches.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Aug 26, 2012 - 07:22pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 26, 2012 - 07:28pm PT
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Insects need love too
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
the pitch above you
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Aug 26, 2012 - 09:40pm PT
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Shot this action in Costa Rica last year. Tarantula Hawk dragging home dinner for the family.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 27, 2012 - 12:37pm PT
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Check out the Venezuela Poodle Moth!
Contrary to internet experts' opinion it is real.
Venezuela Poodle Moth
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MH2
climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 03:39pm PT
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That moth looks kitted for polar regions, not Venezuela. The others on the link look Mardi Gras.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Aug 27, 2012 - 04:27pm PT
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I distinctly recall Maggie identifying Jiggs as an insect. She then tried to do him in by throwing the nearest object at him. Bringing Up Father. By McManus?
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Tim Camuti
Trad climber
CA
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Aug 27, 2012 - 07:08pm PT
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One of the largest insects in the world. Allowed through customs when I came back to the USA, but the border control officer wasn't supposed to let it through. Yeah for good graces!
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Aug 27, 2012 - 07:34pm PT
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Just stumbled onto the thread - awesome shots, all.
Ron mentioned stumpfu*kers a while ago upthread. God how I hated those damned things. No bite mark, but when they bit you it would feel like an electric shock going through you. We had one fire north of Reno where the ground was literally moving with a carpet of them.
I have been trying to find a picture but haven't had any luck, so a description will have to do...
We were cold trailing a fire near Pahrump on July 4th..02? I think. Anyways, I put my hand down to check the root clump of a Joshua tree and got hit by about 40 of the bastards on my arm ( I had the sleeves rolled up as it was about 110 at the time.)
I started doing the "Stumpfu*ker Dance" which consists of banging on the affected body part, along with yelling "ARRRRGH STUMPFU*KERS GET OFFA MEEE" and my partner is dancing around me trying to get his camera out to take a picture of the swarm all over my arm instead of helping get them off...thanks Billy....
Anyways it was a great shot of me looking like the world had ended and my pulaski flying off while I'm trying to kill the damned things...sorry to have lost it, was a classic shot of the joys of firefighting.
Keep up the awesome shots of the creepy crawlies!
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Double D
climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 08:53pm PT
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It's the season of love in Zion...
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MH2
climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 10:27pm PT
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Aug 29, 2012 - 02:20am PT
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One big and scarey Mo-Fo.
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ha ha! that's the top of a dead bush!
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2012 - 01:03pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 23, 2012 - 01:25pm PT
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Entomophobia.
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shakin' man
Trad climber
california
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Sep 23, 2012 - 05:49pm PT
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knudeNoggin
climber
Falls Church, VA
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Sep 24, 2012 - 12:06am PT
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Late to this party, I know; but a few points:
1) That "fast" black widow doesn't sound like a BW to me :
BWs, like house spiders, reside in webs, and are pretty SLOW, overall.
If you really have that, you should be able to bait its web,
draw her out to the *volunteer* bait, and capture her easily.
(Then, she'd make a striking pet.)
2) On those paper (polistes) wasps nesting in the inconvenient eave
by a door --and annoying at least one (other) family member --:
you could make a vision shield for the nest out of a plastic milk
carton (e.g.), to keep them from being alarmed by people passage.
You could also (bonus points) move the nest, but I imagine this is
just good for a laugh. (I once salvaged an attacked? bald-faced
honets nest at a young stage (7-9 wasps?), and with the hornets
in a jar, I reconstructed the nest in a cut-in-half milk carton which
I ducTaped to a porch window, trying to realize a dream from youth
in which some Think-&-Do book showed a (lucky) person with a
big nest up on house glass --what an observatory!
(Sadly, the nest remained small --didn't add even a 2nd comb. boo)
*kN*
photo : polistes wasps with two in the horizontal center chewing
up a caterpillar ball one of them had just brought to the nest,
then to feed grubs. delicious!
Robber fly with lunch fly, on MY lunch!
(LX3, so the lens was close to the subjects)
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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Sep 24, 2012 - 01:28am PT
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Camel Spiders
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