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gb6491
10-12-2018, 01:43 PM
So, my wife shoots me an email, the body of which reads:

"What is that?"

That being this:
https://i.postimg.cc/d1sN0kfC/cs1.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Yep, that's a camel spider/wind scorpion/sun spider (take your pick)
https://i.postimg.cc/5yc3CX7p/cs2.jpg (https://postimg.cc/XG8dMY0y)

She spared it, but she's deadly on real scorpions. Last year, she killed the biggest bark scorpion I've seen. Kind of scary that it was in our kitchen.

Shake your boots out folks!

Regards,
Greg
Bawanna
10-12-2018, 02:31 PM
I wouldn't have spared it, spiders/bugs are like snakes, only good ones are dead ones.

When I come down to visit you can bet your boots I'll be shaking my boots out vigorously, and often. Not sure I'll sleep, unless I find a bare white room that's a vacuum with no inlets for bugs.

Ok, I'll admit it, I skeered of bugs. I hate bees too, you got them killer bee's down there yet?

Is that bug poisonous? Some folks just gotta know.
gale155
10-12-2018, 03:13 PM
I wouldn't have spared it, spiders/bugs are like snakes, only good ones are dead ones.

When I come down to visit you can bet your boots I'll be shaking my boots out vigorously, and often. Not sure I'll sleep, unless I find a bare white room that's a vacuum with no inlets for bugs.

Ok, I'll admit it, I skeered of bugs. I hate bees too, you got them killer bee's down there yet?

Is that bug poisonous? Some folks just gotta know.

Those things are Solifugae, which are neither spiders nor scorpions. They are not venomous, although I've read their bite can be somewhat painful. They feed on other bugs, and are especially fond of termites...which makes them okay in my book.

The dear little honey bees are vital to our ecosystem, and we'd be in big trouble without them. Wasps are pollinators as well, and serve a useful purpose in the grand scheme of things. Bees I like, but wasps? Not so much.
kenemoore
10-12-2018, 04:46 PM
Those who can, do.
Those who cannot preach or teach.
What say you "preacher".
ltxi
10-12-2018, 06:40 PM
Those things are Solifugae, which are neither spiders nor scorpions. They are not venomous, although I've read their bite can be somewhat painful. They feed on other bugs, and are especially fond of termites...which makes them okay in my book.

The dear little honey bees are vital to our ecosystem, and we'd be in big trouble without them. Wasps are pollinators as well, and serve a useful purpose in the grand scheme of things. Bees I like, but wasps? Not so much.

On the same page here. Plus I have no issue at all with with common spiders and garden type snakes.
Scrambler
10-12-2018, 07:14 PM
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What's this? Spied a little bee action last week.
AJBert
10-12-2018, 08:16 PM
Doesn't quite look like what we called camel spiders in Iraq. Just a tad bit smaller, too.

I like snakes and spiders, just not the poisonous one. They serve a great service in getting rid of many, many pests that really bug me.
Bawanna
10-12-2018, 10:07 PM
If only there was a snake that took out violets. I'd like that kind of snake.
AIRret
10-13-2018, 06:23 AM
Greg, it's great how you manage to include "gun stuff" in a non gun Post

Your wife SHOOTS you an email...............
Bawanna
10-13-2018, 09:08 AM
I think it's his Marine upbringing. He leads by following the rules. I was a boy scout, we bent them a bit from time to time.
O'Dell
10-13-2018, 07:09 PM
I think it's his Marine upbringing. He leads by following the rules. I was a boy scout, we bent them a bit from time to time.

You were a Boy Scout? Scout's Honor?:rolleyes:

I was too. Last month I found my old eagle neckerchief, wadded up in a drawer I was cleaning out. Silk doesn't take well to being wadded up for 40 years.
ltxi
10-13-2018, 07:12 PM
If only there was a snake that took out violets. I'd like that kind of snake.

Got that. Sadly, god don't make 'em that big. At least not the swallowers. The coily kind would prolly work but you can't get them on Amazon, nor even Snakes.com, no more
Bawanna
10-13-2018, 07:27 PM
You were a Boy Scout? Scout's Honor?:rolleyes:

I was too. Last month I found my old eagle neckerchief, wadded up in a drawer I was cleaning out. Silk doesn't take well to being wadded up for 40 years.

I was an Eagle too. Scouts themselves don't do so well after 40 years neither but probably better than silk.
I think I still got my uniform, good luck ever getting into that again.
jeepster09
10-13-2018, 09:11 PM
As the OLD STORY goes.....I got thrown out for eating a brownie :angel: