Big bug

[Sappy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...orlds-heaviest-insect-weighs-times-mouse.html

Really cool!

 

[Robbi]

WOW ! nice one, i'd love to find something like that

 

[JAG009]

Yip big bug here are some more http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...T_CQC5ezZEgbVKykw&sig2=wFRQnfgDqWhQBIg_CE2TFQ

 

[Sanji]

Imagine finding that in your tent or sleeping bag lol


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[Harvestman]

That is one heck of a grasshopper! Great thing to find.

 

[bb07]

The first thing I thought of was this 23lb Grasshopper shot in New Zealand

 

[Biker]

Imagine finding that in your tent or sleeping bag lol

I'd wet myself all the while screaming like a little girl!

Just clicked on that giant insects link JAG009 posted and I'm trying now to forget such things really do exist! (shudder!)

 

[Bushwhacker]

Wonder what it tastes like? It looks a fair meal.


*edit* Ah, it probably tastes of carrot.

 

[Biker]

Wonder what it tastes like? It looks a fair meal.


*edit* Ah, it probably tastes of carrot.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

or chicken?

 

[dwardo]

Ewwwwwwwww.

 

[Tank]

I am sure bear will be along in a bit to have a feast.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

The first thing I thought of was this 23lb Grasshopper shot in New Zealand

Hope you realise that's a hoax bb07..

 

[andybysea]

Finding one of those Giant camel spiders in my sleeping bag would result in me never venturing in to it again!

 

[mountainm]

That giant Isopod in JAG009's post is a new one on me. Prehistoric beasty!

 

[Sappy]

Theres evidence of giant centipedes on the Fife coast line that were 2m long.

 

[Sappy]

http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/crail_fossils.htm

Very cool.

 

[bb07]

Hope you realise that's a hoax bb07..

Yup, saw that years ago ( my pre-computer days) published in one of the trash papers like the National Enquirer or other supermarket tabloid but I still found it funny!

 

[Harvestman]

When I worked with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge years ago, they had some of those giant isopods in a tank. Seawater at about 2 degrees centigrade. They are really very slow moving and inoccuous, and we used to reach in and pick them up to show visitors. Think woodlouse, only aquatic, and about a foot long. Great things

For other weirdies, try googling bootlace ribbon worm, and looking at the wikipedia entry. A 180 foot worm! And it occurs on shorelines in the UK. We used to get little ones up on the Clyde coast in Scotland, and give one end to tourists and get them to walk away, whilst we paid out the worm like a rope. 10 feet long was quite normal, and that's before they start to stretch.

 

[Huon]

Well according to Wal Footrot they taste like shrimp. Of course that could be the way Cooch cooks them.

Someone who ate a live one recently wasn't so keen. Who you might ask? Not that surprising really:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBnssLXZEwI

Wonder what it tastes like? It looks a fair meal.


*edit* Ah, it probably tastes of carrot.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Wonder what it tastes like? It looks a fair meal.

" .Well, you can live on it, but it taste like s*** "





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