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Shokan 07-20-2003 04:57 AM

need help I.Ding an insect
 
Sorry for the shit quality.

I have never seen this bug before. It was about 3-4 inches long, and had wings similar to a dragonfly. I am in southern Ontario, Canada.

Can anyone help?

http://groups.msn.com/askaaska/shoeb...hoto&PhotoID=1
http://groups.msn.com/askaaska/shoeb...hoto&PhotoID=2
http://groups.msn.com/askaaska/shoeb...hoto&PhotoID=3

LittleOralAnnie 07-20-2003 06:38 AM

Here I'm asking myself why I ever clicked the link. Why why why!!? That is one of the most hideous bugs I've seen and at this moment I'm unsure of what kind that may be.

denim 07-20-2003 07:18 AM

Looks like the furbious Snozwangler to me. Are you still alive, or has it burrowed into your brain yet? If not, be glad you're not an Umpa Lumpa.

Kaos 07-20-2003 08:38 AM

Damn, I live in Southern Ontario, and have never seen a bug like that. Seen similiar ones like big Katydid's and stuff, but not that one.

/me goes to find out what that is.

Giant Hamburger 07-20-2003 09:15 AM

Hail Bug Hunter!

I had one of those crawl out of a wound once.
I always wondered "which species was that?"
I promptly ate it.
I will now begin my research for you.
I am done.
-GH

forseti-6 07-20-2003 10:21 AM

Hmm looks like some cross between a Katydid/locust and a Cicada. Weird looking mofo.

bullgoose 07-20-2003 10:52 AM

I live in upstate NY; looks like a Katydid or Cicada to me; we get 'em fairly often around here; ugly but harmless (raises hell with the windshield,though!)

putzy 07-20-2003 11:33 AM

wow, im glad i live in BC cause thats one of the most scaries looking bus ive ever seen.:eek:

platypus 07-20-2003 03:50 PM

I don't know. In my world this is a katydid...
http://www.photo-trio.co.nz/rsp/images/katydid.jpg

and this is a cicada.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames...ure/cicada.jpg

What you've got is neither and looks to be quite nasty.

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Edit: <b>Found it!</b>

Dobsonfly

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/biodiver...orydalidae.jpg

Not as dangerous as they look, actually. Used as bait by fishermen.

nothingx 07-20-2003 11:05 PM

I was just about to say, I know them as hellgrammites... Which, thanks to your link platypus, I now know that name refers to the larvae. Interestingly, I see them every once in a great while and I'm in the mid-easteren united states... so apparently, they come down from canada now and then.

Zeld2.0 07-20-2003 11:50 PM

Whats pretty freaky is those bugs that come from continents away. Living in LA, we have a pretty diverse society down here but that also brings some pretty foreign bugs.

A few years ago jumping flying spiders weren't around and suddenly its like "attack of the super bugs" or something lol.

Bill O'Rights 07-21-2003 04:43 AM

Damn, that's a ugly bug!!

Daval 07-21-2003 06:17 AM

thats a scary looking bug. I live in southern ontario and aint ever seen a bug like that!

Shokan 07-21-2003 08:51 AM

thanks guys! that been's bugging me for quite awhile!

triplefivesoul 07-21-2003 09:05 AM

disgusting.

Zeld2.0 07-21-2003 09:10 AM

Heh I remember doing bug collection projects for school and I still cringe at having to stick needles through huge bugs like a potato bug or something ugh

tinfoil 07-21-2003 10:12 AM

Whilst we are on the bug topic, I have been searching for about a week regarding one that I saw on my car.

I am in Southern Ontario as well. My wife and I were walking to the car when we saw this fly roughly 2 to 3 inches long. It looked similar to the cicada posted by platypus, but it was gloss black with clear wings. Nothing else. It was nearly invisible on my car as it is black as well.

It looks to be in the horse fly family, but that's all I can find out. I really wish I had my camera on me.... I normally do, but the real estate lady we were with said no pictures allowed so I left it at home.

Any thoughts?
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Edit:

After hitting the link Platypus posted, I had read there were indeed 9 types of cicada that are common in Canada.. I think it was one of those, though I am still looking at picks for more.

It does look alot like this one:
http://members.fortunecity.com/cicad...9/1e7c63f0.jpg

It may be a Tibicen chloromera... whatever that is heh.

fallen_angel 07-21-2003 02:54 PM

oh my god that thing scared the crap outta me. . . just kill it, its to ugly to be flyin around. . . that thing would make me run out of my house or where ever i was even if i was driving just to get away from it. . . i freak out around bugs and thats a big scary bug
but thanx for waking me up alot

Arachnid 07-23-2003 02:15 AM

like a said on IRC... thats an awesome bug ya got there .... bottle the buggar for later refeerence :)


Cheers

vetoed_libido 07-23-2003 06:29 AM

yeah, I live in southern ontario, too. that's a nice one you found there!

up to 70cm long! that's huge! i'd be running. : )

eyeronic 07-23-2003 06:30 AM

cool bug pictures

I now officially hate the Dobsonfly

rocinante2003 07-23-2003 09:49 AM

I hate bugs lol.

m0ntyblack 07-23-2003 11:57 AM

Man, that Dobsonfly is a ugly son of a bi0tch....ugh...imagine waking up at night finding one crawling on your face /shudder.


MB

clavus 07-23-2003 01:52 PM

Strong work, platypus!!

I suggest that you capture this insect and hide it in your sister's underwear drawer.

asdf4321 07-23-2003 08:37 PM

Underwear drawer sounds like a great idea... I don't get it. I'm 18, used to love bugs at age 10ish, just recently realized how I detest bugs this summer while biking (ingesting gnats.. fun stuff).. All this bug talk reminds me of the time I was chased, along with two friends, by a giant horse fly back in scout summer camp..

Damn bugs.

oldman2003 07-23-2003 09:14 PM

lol .... you guys crack me up! All bugs are ugly...

StormBerlin 07-30-2003 09:19 PM

I dunno, I think he;s kinda cute :) ugly things need love too...

The.Lunatic 07-30-2003 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by platypus

Edit: <b>Found it!</b>

Dobsonfly

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/biodiver...orydalidae.jpg

Not as dangerous as they look, actually. Used as bait by fishermen.

Very nice, I never did get to see the pictures as they don't seem to be working right now.

maxero 07-30-2003 11:16 PM

i think the bugs in my house are evolving
ive had these little black beetles for a while, and recently ive learned they can fly, and their exoskeletons are becoming more indestructable by the month

BentNotTwisted 08-04-2003 09:51 AM

My wife just had me call to have the house sprayed because there are a few spiders and the occasional cricket. The spiders are never more than 1 cm and the crickets can't be more that 2 or 3 cm. She would have called the fire department if she saw an insect that big anywhere near our home, especially one that flies!

Looften 08-04-2003 11:30 AM

I've seen that insect before, although I couldn't for the life of me remember where. Good catch on the Dobsonfly ID

mingusfingers 08-04-2003 11:59 AM

That is one freaky ass bug...though I really hate horseflies more.

rl33 08-04-2003 12:12 PM

That is about the most revolting bug I have ever seen, and to have it crawling around your house. echhh


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