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Oriental Redneck |
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Lacewing larva, also called the aphid lion or junk bug. Good to have around, good aphid killers. http://eoapreserve.blogspot.com/2016/09/?m=1 “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
Amazing, thanks! These little buggers just carry trash on their back. Crazy! Q | |||
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FOUR Minutes! Impressive!  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Without the big thing on its back, it looks like the bug from "Star Trek The Wrath of Khan". Never saw that before. Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin | |||
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^^^^^^ Thought the same exact thing! Where’s that “ nuke it from orbit” meme when you need it most?!?!  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Haha! Good call! ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Ant lion, as noted above. As a kid, I used to see these small depressions in the sand, and scoop them out with a sifter to capture these. In Michigan, at least after being sifted, they didn't have the camo-crud on their backs, they came out just clean. Very small, maybe 1/4 inch, from tail to tip of jaw. Looked like this, close up.  I'd put them in an empty margarine container I'd filled with sand, and watch them dig in and create their own trap. They back into the dirt (bodies have a contour that makes that simple, like an airfoil) and then flip their head/mouthpiece and move in a circle and do it again until they have a depression that is shaped like a perfect cone, like an inverted volcano. That's their trap/home, and there, in the middle, they sit. When something stumbles into the trap, it tries to get out and knocks some sand into the center. That wakes up the ant lion, and it throws more sand up to knock the unlucky victim closer to the jaws in the center. More often than not, at least for small stuff, this results in a meal. It was very cool (except for the ant) and since I liked lacewings (which as an adult I discovered were great predators of plant pests) learning about their origins was fascinating. They are pretty common. Those looking for ant lions traps in their yards, keep an eye out for something like this in areas with sandy/fine soil:  And, yeah, as an adult when I saw what Khan did on Ceti Alpha 5, it was pretty clear what they used as a conceptual model for the bug. | |||
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Heh. That was my first thought as well. Ceti Eel. | |||
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Ant lions and aphid lions are different critters; same genus. Both larva have an extremely predatory nature. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| The Quiet Man |
" He put... creatures... in our bodies... to control our minds. He made us... say lies... do things. He thought he controlled us, but he did not." | |||
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