They're all numbered. Time for bed now. I will name them tomorrow.

[LuckyCharms]

[MontanaMama]

1. Uh oh.

59 is missing.

[LuckyCharms]

3. He...

escaped and flew up my nose.

[MontanaMama]

9. Seriously...

Nobody loves a dead mosquito more than I do, but what gives, LC?

[LuckyCharms]

10. I used to work in a bug infested office.

After it became insufferable and we were overrun with the damn things, my co-worker kind of lost it and whenever he killed one, he would tape them to this white board, and give them each a Latin name.

I just saw this pic on the internet, and it reminded me of that situation.

[MFM008]

2. The 80s

Are kinda vacant...

[LuckyCharms]

7. Yes, and I'm kind of ashamed about that.

[Yavin4]

38. Yep. Just like the actual decade. n/t

[MFM008]

41. That was my

Second point!😁

[Sanity Claws]

4. What happens after that?

Do you eat them?

[LuckyCharms]

6. I formally present them at conferences...

and explain each of their tragic lives.

[Squinch]

5. I recognize 58. His name is Fred.

[LuckyCharms]

8. 58 is a female.

[Afromania]

11. It must be short for Frediricka or something:)

[LuckyCharms]

14. What must be short for Frediricka?

[Throckmorton]

48. My Aunt Fred is saddened by the conclusion she can't be female.

My uncle Sue is equally upset by the concept of gender specific names.

[Historic NY]

12. Are you sure some aren't just pieces, that would be cheating.

[LuckyCharms]

13. If one of them was in pieces...

I glued the pieces together to make them look like complete insects. Like they do with dinosaurs in museums.

[lunasun]

15. Kudos on your reconstruction skills on the broken ones

Much better than I have ever been able to do with any ants that split in my ant collection
And I have hundreds of them !

[True Dough]

16. Can you name one of them

True Dough?

I'd be honored!

[dewsgirl]

17. I have found this thread is very entertaining!

[Ohiogal]

18. This whole thing really bites. It bugs me.

[Solly Mack]

19. Seems kind of mean.

[LuckyCharms]

21. See post #10

They are not my bugs, I didn't tape them, it is a pic on the internet that reminded me of a real-life situation that was performed by someone other that myself that I found humorous.

[Solly Mack]

22. I know it's from the internet.

I understood it to not be your work.

I didn't say you seem kind of mean.



You seem kind of quirky.

[LuckyCharms]

23. Quirky is one way of putting it, yes.

I do tend to see things differently than many people, but I am shaped by my life experiences, like everyone is. My life experiences have not been close to what most people would consider normal.

[Solly Mack]

24. I didn't have normal either.

Of which I have discovered (over many years) has been the "normal" for a lot of people.

[LuckyCharms]

31. I thinks it's better to be...

"abnormal" anyway. Makes life much more interesting.

[Solly Mack]

37. I agree. Wouldn't trade with anyone.

[LuckyCharms]

20. deleted-moved

[Kali]

25. Reminds me of these...

[True Dough]

26. Those are spectacular

No flies on you, Kali!

[Midnight Writer]

29. Wow. How in the world did someone train these flies to pose like that?

[LuckyCharms]

32. Damn, I love those!

[zanana1]

34. Now that's art! nt

[Stuart G]

39. Now..when you think you have seen it all..there is more..mounted flies and mosquitos ..is

that correct? Flies and mosquitos mounted for view, and numbered as in the first one. I have seen some strange stuff on the internet, but this one is ....????

But, and this is an important but..this did not hurt anyone. And flies about and mosquitos, well they ain't the greatest gift to the world, and there are a whole lot, and a few wouldn't be missed..

[Historic NY]

42. I can get you a hundred wheat flies from that attic..

[dewsgirl]

43. One of the most unique ideas I have ever seen, so simple

yet hilarious.

[jberryhill]

46. Amateurs

[Kali]

47. LOL!

I love the one under glass. I have an enclosed "sun porch" that has been renamed "the weird porch" because it is where the extra strange things I have ended up with reside. It includes a few ancient mounted heads (a steer, two mule deer, a javelina, and a black bear), a disturbingly large oil painting of my husband as a small boy that hung in his mother's living room all of his life (he is a saint), an old inflatable oscar meyer wiener, a bunch of old hats (cowboy and fancy lady), a set of elk antlers, odd "art objects" etc. But there is also a mummified toad that I found, not one of those tourist ones - though I do have a tourist version of a blow fish made into a small hanging lantern.

[fleur-de-lisa]

49. Damn those are funny! Sure miss MFM.

[Laffy Kat]

27. Hey, I think #49 was the one that gave me West Nile a few years ago....

That was fun.

[Snackshack]

28. Mosquitoes...

I have always wondered just what evolution was thinking when it allowed that branch of species to exist/survive. If you look them up they apparently serve no purpose other than to be food for other life forms but there are plenty of other things for those life forms to eat. Unless their purpose is to keep certain species populations in check because Mosquitoes are very good at disease delivery.

[smirkymonkey]

33. I have often wondered the same thing.

Why do they exist at all, other than to make us miserable and to spread disease? They are absolutely useless.

[pansypoo53219]

30. i used to mail them in my letters. have not seen 1 this year & we have had lots of rain.

but they do not like me much. attacked my knitting.

[zanana1]

35. I hope they didn't suffer.

[lastlib]

36. Ah, someone who understands the difference between entomology and etymology!

Those people who don't just bug me beyond words!

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[lapfog_1]

40. language humor... nice! - n/t

[Stuart G]

44. One of the most unusual posts I've ever seen..needs to be bumped one more time...

Weird but interesting...Be sure to take a look at post 25..

[oasis]

45. Thanks for the laughs.

[fleur-de-lisa]

50. Do you have a super duper magnifying glass so you can check their genitals?

How else are you gonna name them appropriately?

"I know a guy, his name is Guido, his d*ck's so small he could f*ck a mosquito."

[TygrBright]

51. My god, what happened to #14? n/t

[LuckyCharms]

52. He was in the wrong place

at the wrong time.