That is a walking case of the willies is what that is.

Scolopendra gigantea? Amazon Giant Centipede?

that is correct. Unfortunately, I found some vids of those things eating live mice/rats ...willie willard

Yeah. Saw that those were out there. Passed em by. Carnivorous fish are one thing, carnivorous, venemous chitinous tubes with a godzillion legs are entirely something else.

Shudder.

OK, let's give this one a try...
http://la.barousse.free.fr/photo/faune/desman.jpg

best I can say is that it is a type of mole.

Sort of, a Eurasian Aquatic one. Can y'all get it from there?

ahhh, I just found this and noticed that it's one of the most easily recognized shrews ...so did I recognize it? Noooooo. What I found:

Eurasian water shrew (Neomys fodiens) is one of the largest and most easily recognised of all shrews.

I hope my assumption that I was right is ...right. So here's my next one ...this is sort of a "trick question" ...except for Tophat who seemingly can't be tricked about such things ...I mean that as a compliment, not sarcasm.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lisdatding.jpg

I just wanted to say some of you all are some animal-knowing motherfuckers. Very, very impressive...I thought I knew my animals, but compared to some of you, I barely rgister a blip on the meter.

My guess at the above would be some type of frog eggs? How bout south american poison dart frog?

Good shot. Egg is right, but not frogs.

Are those the eggs of the Harlequin Bug? (I'm digging deep into elementary school for that one, and can't go researching it just now.)

Correct, they are insect eggs. For more specifics, I have to wait to get home in about 1-1/2hrs to see exactly what I wrote down it was. Otherwise, if you guys are satisfied with bug eggs, proceed on Tophat. Or guess away and I'll check this again a little later.

edit: these are Fall Cankerworm eggs Alsophila pometaria


So it's back to you Tophat

http://www.reefngom.org/slipdici.jpg

I hate to go to the fish again, but I love the name on this one.

It's a slippery dick. Seriously. If anyone else wants to take a crack at it, post away.

Let's start this up again.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...lemorph2_L.jpg

I'd say that looks like a praying mantis

It's definitely a mantid of some sort, but the purple legs make me wonder (though the filename, now that I think about it, suggests that they're not of themselves enough for speciation). I think I agree with Nick.

I looked through a lot of mantid pics and none were just like that one above, with the reddish legs and eyes being exceptional. I guess inBOIL will have to give us a yay or nay.

It's not a mantid.

It's Steve.

Ok, I'll give a hint. They're found only in Namibia.

The newly dubbed "gladiator"? Carnivorous, eh?

Says the order is called Mantophasmatodea.

Is it one of the Mantophasmatodeans that they discovered in 2002?

yous guys are so animalistically smart!....no way I would know that. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express (and ate a bug there)


jewels, I didn't know you're Canadian.

Correct. Jewels wins by 1 minute.

way to go, jewels

while we wait, here's a bug on a forget-me-not

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...3720fbcafa.jpg