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The measure of cute

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Friday, February 3, 2012 12:32 PM

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/02/01/the-worlds-heav
iest-insect-is-3500-more-massive-than-the-worlds-smallest-vertebrate/

>_>

iwantone...

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Friday, February 3, 2012 2:07 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

The insects are on the move, land AND sea !

Looks like some B sci-fi movie, from Saturday afternoons gone by...

We’ll need a bigger barbecue! World’s biggest ‘prawn’ discovered as scientists find ELEVEN INCH crustacean in deep sea

By JULIAN GAVAGHAN
Last updated at 9:03 AM on 3rd February 2012

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095397/Worlds-biggest-
prawn-discovered-scientists-11-inch-crustacean-deep-sea.html#ixzz1lMp36QnR
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, February 3, 2012 2:12 PM

BYTEMITE

Apparently certain crustaceans don't actually age or die unless something eats them first (like a fish, or humans, or a parasite). But unfortunately most of them are delicious.

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Friday, February 3, 2012 2:14 PM

BYTEMITE

But seriously. It's eating a carrot. Look at its little black eye, and try telling me that it isn't just SO HAPPY in that picture.

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Friday, February 3, 2012 2:48 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Kinda creeps me out. Not use to seeing insect critters that large, outside of a museum. Thing looks like it belongs in the Mesozoic, or even earlier.

ick.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Friday, February 3, 2012 5:37 PM

WISHIMAY

Can you imagine going down to yer basement in the middle of the night to find out what's making the noise AND FINDING THAT?!!!

I would shat myself ta death...then...

Reba McEntire from "Tremors" comes ta mind...

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Friday, February 3, 2012 6:45 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

What Rap said. And to "ick" I'll add "shudder"!

(Damn...if we stayed on the subject of animals we might actually LIKE one anoth....

...naw, never happen. ;o)

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Friday, February 3, 2012 8:36 PM

FREMDFIRMA

D'aawww.. Wetas are cute in a sorta creepy demented way!

I think the pet market for em would prolly be limited to us Sparks though, something about the legs, I think, sets off primal fear in the normals.

-F

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Saturday, February 4, 2012 1:25 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

What next...

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:38 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Don't know what all the fuss is about. Tiger prawns get that size

Or for weird food, you can try the mortan bay bug - available much further north

or a typical housespider - a huntsman

or a typical ant of the nasty variety - a bull ant

or huge cockroach

or giant earthworm

The world is full of wonderful weirdness

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Saturday, February 4, 2012 12:14 PM

BYTEMITE

It looks like a bunny! If you kind of squint.

I actually had a pet cricket when I was a kid. Until my brother deliberately dropped a basketball on it.

I named it Chester, and kept it in a matchbox. Bonus points if you get the reference.

Looked like this, black color.

http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identificat
ion=Field-Cricket

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Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:52 PM

FREMDFIRMA

You too eh ?
I carried a Tarantula around for a few weeks in middle school - I guess it escaped a pet shop or something, till some jerk deliberately knocked it off my desk and it didn't survive the fall.

This despite me not liking spiders much, it was the way he moved, it just gave a sense of frightened and hungry, which caused me to adopt him, and he was friendly enough, for an overgrown dimwitted spider.

I was weird enough that it didn't freak my so-called peers out any more than anything else I did - but then I got expelled when I retaliated against that punk, oh well.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:45 AM

WISHIMAY

Geez, Byte. Is your brother still a jerk? Sounds like something mine would've done, but fortunately mine has grown out of it...
(The Cricket in Times Square)

And Frem, I'm shocked that you were a hellion, even as a kid. Never would have guessed it

I had kinda the same thing happen to me, except they were garden spiders and dad suggested I take them in to Biology class and it didn't end well, either. Not on purpose, but ewww. Poor spiders.. I still don't like 'em in my house, though. We get corn spiders occaisionally and my husband calls 'em "afgan-y wolf spiders" 'cause they're so big and hairy and totally not afraid to crawl out from the woodwork and stare at you

Moral is the story is no big spiders at school, I guess...

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Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:52 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

longhorn beetle

goliath beetle

bird eating spider

giant squid

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Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:32 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I agree with magon's, we have such neat creatures in the world to enjoy and learn about.

I'm sure there are other people who think he's cute Byte. I personally don't find him cute as such but I think he's pretty special and cool, being such a big insect and all. I think I read somewhere about how wetas freeze over in the winter and then in the spring they thaw out and go about their business, that's pretty cool.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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