Coleoptera and friends

October 16, 2005 5:46 AM

Big beetles (Breed your own! They're cuddly!), tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes, various butterflies and moths.
posted by Wolfdog (18 comments total)

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posted by 3.2.3 at 7:20 AM on October 16, 2005

*shudder*
posted by Luciferous at 7:27 AM on October 16, 2005

What Luciferous said.
posted by May Kasahara at 7:52 AM on October 16, 2005

Q: "What has the study of biology taught you about the Creator, Dr. Haldane?"

A: "I'm not sure, but He seems to be inordinately fond of beetles."
posted by gwint at 7:53 AM on October 16, 2005

"Latest inserted species"

heh.
posted by peacay at 8:44 AM on October 16, 2005

I ate a beetle larva that I found in a log I was splitting.

It tasted like bark.
posted by recurve at 8:56 AM on October 16, 2005

hehe, i was just watching starship troopers yesterday at wal-mart :D

so i was going thru the beeding process... digusting! it's like the matrix no?
posted by kliuless at 9:09 AM on October 16, 2005

ewwww ... cuddly, you say?
/ rethinks prior prediliction of "cuddling" up to WolfDog
posted by madamjujujive at 9:29 AM on October 16, 2005

Actually, nothing gives me the creeps like larval things. Human- (or at least wolfdog-) nature what it is, I just had to share.
Reading Perdido Street Station didn't do anything to foster any love, either.
posted by Wolfdog at 9:34 AM on October 16, 2005

[looks at FPP list of bugs. decides that he's better off not seeing pictures of ginormous bugs.]
posted by five fresh fish at 10:22 AM on October 16, 2005

Why must bugs be big?
posted by Eothele at 10:53 AM on October 16, 2005

That "cuddly" picture makes me shiver and cry and hide.
posted by Sticherbeast at 11:45 AM on October 16, 2005

The 'cuddly' picture, and millipedes: eurgh! I seem to remember an artist who mixed penis imagery with such things. Ring any bells, anyone?

Also - slightly smaller larva extracted from a human eye. (Not suitable for those who are phobic!)
posted by paperpete at 12:53 PM on October 16, 2005

Paperpete, I have never been less inclined to click on a link in my life. *cringe*
posted by maryh at 1:41 PM on October 16, 2005

UGH. I can hardly stand to touch my keyboard after viewing paperpete's link.
posted by oneirodynia at 1:54 PM on October 16, 2005

Once I found a full grown male stag beetle lumbering along the floor of my Brooklyn apartment. Still not sure how the hell he got in there, nor what he thought he was doing. Once I got close enough to realize he wasn't some giant, mutant cockroach, I was pretty fascinated. I read up on them and found out they can be grown indoors, as well. My wife was, unsurprisingly, not too keen on the idea.
posted by Gamblor at 5:20 PM on October 16, 2005

I ate a beetle larva that I found in a log I was splitting.

It tasted like bark.

Thanks for sharing, recurve.

Beetle are cool to look at, but I know I'd turn into a shrieking stereotype if one of those buggers touched me.

As for the larvae? Ewewgrossgrossgrossew.
posted by kosher_jenny at 5:52 PM on October 16, 2005

Wimps.

The beetles are beautiful, tarantulas interesting, and the goliath beetle is simply a few times bigger than an average beetle (at the very least check out the morphidae butterfly page; you'll be glad you did).

I know where I can buy tarantula and hissing cockroach babies (at a nearby insect zoo) and I'm just biding my time.
posted by artifarce at 8:46 PM on October 16, 2005