134 Terrifying Close-Ups Of Bugs

[pokerfan]

Insects. We can pretend they don't outnumber us, that they don't have camouflage or several times our strength, proportionately...until we see them up close. Here are the results from this week's Shooting Challenge: Bugs.

http://gizmodo.com/5930349/134-terrifying-close+ups-of-bugs

[Skinner]

1. That picture is amazing.

Some other great ones at the link.

[pokerfan]

2. Micro will eventually be a movie, right?

Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets Jurassic Park.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Maybe "Bug Park" would be more appropriate ...

http://www.amazon.com/Bug-Park-James-P-Hogan/dp/0671878743

(both authors are wingers, FWIW)

[pokerfan]

11. Well, Crichton's dead

and Preston (who really wrote Micro) appears to donate mostly to D's.

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/richard-preston.asp

[darkangel218]

3. I hate bugs

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Especially spiders. There are lots of brown recluses here in FL and its scary. We sprayed the house but they come in anyway. I also found one couple days ago in my car, hanging by the review mirror.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. spiders are the hardest things to kill. nt

[handmade34]

6. please reconsider... hate is a strong word

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0213_030213_brownrecluse.html

insectsw are a crucial part of our natural environment and we do a great disservice to our larger world when we are fearful of so many

[Curmudgeoness]

7. I am irrationally terrified of spiders. But with that said,

I will always go out of my way to save them. They live in my basement unmolested, I put them outside if they invade an area where I will run into them, but still...... Ewwwww.

[handmade34]

9. thank you

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Did you know that spiders can live for years?

I had one spider in the basement with a funnel shaped web that lived for at least 6 years. The web was in a corner where I store bird seed, so I saw it all the time....I was sad when the web started to fall apart, telling me that she/he was gone. After a long time, I see that another one has moved into that same location. Ick---but fascinating.

[darkangel218]

14. I'm not saying insects are not useful

I'm completely aware we all live in symbiosis in this ecosystem but that is how I feel about bugs and it is what it is

[FlaGranny]

15. Both my husband

and my mother were bitten on the leg by spiders suspected to be brown recluses. My mom's bite was not as bad as my husbands, but both were bad. My husband wound up in the hospital on IV antibiotics. Spiders are fine - when they stay outside. In the house, not so fine.

Spiders are about impossible to kill with sprays unless you can directly hit each one. I tried a bomb and found a few dead ants and bugs. The spiders were back the next day.

[NJCher]

18. tomato plant branches

When you trim your tomatoes, keep the branches and put them along the walls in your house. Spiders hate 'em.


Cher

[zazen]

4. awwww.....n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

12. That is really quite beautiful, doesn't look real...

[Posteritatis]

16. I think I saw some other stuff by that guy a year or so ago...

His thing was going out right before/around dawn, when the insects are usually either slowed down from the cooler temperatures or actually asleep. They were usually dew-covered at the time, and because of their state they would be really, really cooperative to people who were trying to get a camera lens a quarter inch away from them.

[kraj8995]

13. Spam deleted by LeftishBrit (MIR Team)

[longship]

17. Dun-Dun--Dunnnn!

Cue score from 50's Roger Corman flick.

Skepchick's Bug Girl would be amused.

[NJCher]

19. Amazing!

Yesterday I had two dragonflies playing in front of me. They were like little helicopters! It was quite clear they were playing, as one would buzz the other and then swoop and the other would come back and buzz him/her. It was the most magical moment of the day!

I love dragonflies anyway.

Don't you think the pic in the OP looks like an alien?

Also, look at the praying mantis one. According to some alien reports, there is a praying mantis type alien, too.


Cher