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Sudsy Bubblebath

The Scariest Insect Alive

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(05/06/08 08:06)

The Little Coffee
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taken by Greg Dixon here in Florida, God help us and keep us
I would scream if I saw this thing

saundrakane

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(05/06/08 08:35)

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oh wow...it looks kind of big..and it flies

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(05/06/08 08:57)

The Little Coffee
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It looks like a leaf with eyes

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(05/06/08 10:43)

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That thing is COOL!!

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Aurora

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(05/06/08 10:44)

It looks like it's smiling *brrr*

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(05/06/08 10:51)

The Little Coffee
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it does

Greg said the thing had fallen on the carpet and was licking carpet fibers off itself

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(05/07/08 11:06)

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I think she's quite pretty .. and it's a fantastic picture by the way. (I love that color green - I can see me at Lowes, "Can you match this?")

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(05/08/08 08:14)

The Little Coffee
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That's one of Greg's best...I think he should enter it somewhere !!! ohhh yes,

that would be quite a sight in Lowe's

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(05/09/08 03:33)

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It looks quite interesting - does it have a name - looks like a grasshopper without the long legs

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(05/13/08 03:09)

Quadratic Surd

It's so cute!!

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(05/16/08 08:13)

The Little Coffee
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ohh, it's a katydid.

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(05/21/08 12:08)

Wise Beyond her Years

I don't think we have those here. Thank goodness.

I think June Bugs are scary. The way they just fly mindlessly into everything and they're so *BIG*!.

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(05/21/08 08:20)

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are they those bugs with the helicopter type wings??

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(10/12/08 07:44)

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KatyDid's are nice...I like them

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(10/13/08 02:06)

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No, June bugs look like really, really enormous flying beetles. They make a bunch of noise and they're even clumsier than young son's GF -- which is pretty bad. You find them in Kansas a lot and I once saw one at a campground in Utah which kinda surprised me.

We had an actual, honest-to-goodness cicada in our yard a couple of months ago. I'd never seen one before and didn't even think we had them here but, after capturing it in a bottle for the two-year old grandson, hubby looked it up and it was a green-something-cicada. Wish I'd taken a picture of that.

Is this another effect of climate change? (Which I don't blame solely on humans, BTW?) that we have cicadas in Denver and June Bugs in Utah? Does this mean maybe my grandchild could see a lightning bug someday -- without traveling the 900 miles to Kansas City?

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(10/15/08 06:18)

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I thought it might be a Katydid. I took a photo outside on the porch which I have on another site and one of the people said it was a Katydid. Sort of flying grasshopper.
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