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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:45 PM
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Insects you actually like
What are yours?

Mine are:

crickets (sign of fall)

ladybugs (cute little insects)

I don't hate moths, but they are dirty and get in the house a lot. I try to capture them and put them outside.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:48 PM
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1. There are these black and red bugs
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 02:07 PM by Shell Beau
that are in their mating season right now. Every where I go, I see a couple hooked together. I just ran into about 200 of them doing the deed at the gas station. I am losing my mind. They fly around while in the process. What are they? Aaahhhh!

But other than that, ants fascinate me. Bees do too! They are always on a mission, but I don't want to be attacked by either of them.
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RushIsRot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 10:39 PM
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28. They're called Love Bugs. n/t
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 08:39 AM
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45. They sure like to love a lot!!!
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fiveleafclover Donating Member (382 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 04:44 PM
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48. Are you in Florida?
I remember those from when I lived down there. Some highway drivers would put vaseline on their hoods to keep all the lovebugs from ruining their paint. The swarms were that big.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:49 PM
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2. Aunt Bea
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:49 PM
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3. Bees
All kind of Bees. Yellow Jackets are NOT bees! Polistes Wasps are NOT bees!

And Preying Mantis' because they remind me of my ex-wife. Fuck your brains out, then bite your head off...
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:52 PM
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5. I am terrified of bees...
very long story...but they make me break out in a cold sweat...AAAAAAAAA
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:04 PM
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11. awwww
:hug:
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:02 PM
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7. I should have added Praying Mantises
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 02:03 PM by mvd
They are pretty ugly, but nice and helpful insects.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:50 PM
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4. I like spiders
because they eat the other bugs.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:09 PM
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13. I like "wolf" or "jumping spiders"...
Yeeeks! To the rest of spiders though.



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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 01:53 AM
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42. OMG!
I can pick up wolf spiders and toss them outside! They're the only ones though! All spiders do, however, fascinate me. :D
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:42 PM
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18. spiders ain't insects
nitpickers anonymous, i know
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:52 PM
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6. Dragonflies are seriously cool...
I consider it good luck when I see one.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:14 PM
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23. Definitely, plus they eat mosquitos....
My mom used to buy dragonfly nests every spring to keep the skeeters down.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:25 PM
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24. Yep, they're my favorite.
We have a pond, so we see lots of little Evinrudes out there buzzing around.

I like the blue ones.
FSC
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Akoto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:03 PM
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8. Preying Mantis.
We have some that hang around the pool enclosure. They never cause us any trouble, and they're cool to look at. :)
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 01:26 AM
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41. They are cool. Thats mine, too!
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:04 PM
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9. Ladybugs and lightning bugs
I like ants as long as they're not in my house.
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:04 PM
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10. I like butterflys...
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:06 PM
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12. Ladybirds!
Everyone likes ladybirds!

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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:11 PM
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14. Cicadas, bees, ants, ladybugs, butterflies, cricketts
I love the sound of cicadas in summertime in southern Europe. I can't picture southern France without the pleasant sounds of the cicadas all around in the countryside. Ants are very interesting to me. When I was a little kid many years ago, I once spent an entire summer observing an ant hill and keeping a diary of what they did. They're fascinating.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:14 PM
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15. Ladybugs, fireflies,
butterflies.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:31 PM
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16. Yep, I like fireflies' uniqueness
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 02:31 PM by mvd
And butterflies are very graceful.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:32 PM
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17. butterflies
dragonflies

moths are not dirty, where do you get that, i like the luna moth & those moths that look like bark w. eyes, they are the best in design, not dirty at all

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:42 PM
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19. I like watching honeybees from a distance...
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:44 PM
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20. Bees, butterflies and ladybugs
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:07 PM
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21. cicadas are pretty cool
Dragonflies are nice, too.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:13 PM
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22. Moths, butterflies, bees, praying mantises, fireflies.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:07 PM
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25. It'd be easier for me to list the ones I don't like; but here's a fave...


Luna moth
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:08 PM
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36. Check out my post below....
...I made it before seeing yours. :)
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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:48 PM
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26. ladybugs, lighting bugs, woolly bear caterpillars, butterflies.
Everything else gets smushed
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 04:51 PM
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27. Damn CRICKETS
kept waking me up last night. It's finally cool enough to sleep with the window open and those bastards create a horrible racket right outside my bedroom.

Tonight, I buy Raid and go spray happy. :evilgrin:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 10:40 PM
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29. Ladybugs, butterflies, and dragonflies.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:01 PM
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31. yes, all three
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 10:55 PM
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30. Scarabs.
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Meatwad Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:05 PM
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32. All of them.
They do good for the planet, so I like 'em all.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:06 PM
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34. I wish I could like them all
There are a few that just seem to be pests.
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:06 PM
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33. Luna Moths
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 11:07 PM
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35. That is a pretty moth
I've only seen the brown ones.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 04:28 PM
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46. Brilliant minds...
:D :beer:
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 12:52 AM
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37. RollyPoll-ys/Pill Bugs
I think maybe I drowned a few as a kid, then I tried to keep some as pets..now a days I just try to skoot them out the door if I find them inside. :)
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 01:05 AM
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38. Stick insects and lightning bugs
and taratulas, but I'm not sure spiders count as insects
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 01:08 AM
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39. "Walking sticks"
They are so cool. Like something out of a fantasy story. Like little Ents.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 01:24 AM
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40. Bats!!
They eat mosquitos and have radar. Plus, if they bite you, you get super-powers.

Look, up in the sky, it's hyrdophobia man!!
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 01:55 AM
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43. Bumblebees!
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 06:10 AM
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44. Ladybugs and flutterbys.
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Divameow77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 04:32 PM
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47. I don't LIKE any bugs
but I don't hate butterflies or lightening bugs.
All other bugs are icky, icky, icky.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 06:06 PM
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49. Ants. I'm a bit obsessive about them.
If you think of an ant colony as a single organism, they make a lot more sense. Ant trails are the arms and the fingers of the beast, reaching out from the colony's shelter like a shape-shifting giant octupus.

Large stable ant colonies exhibit a certain kind of intelligence. Different ant colonies have different "personalities" even among the same species of ants.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 06:10 PM
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50. Cecropia moths
They're HUGE!
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 06:12 PM
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51. Praying Mantis, Spiders
Of course they are friendly bugs that kill the nasty ones.
All hail the Mantis!

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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 06:15 PM
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52. insects
Praying Mantis
spiders, smaller ones
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jmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 06:24 PM
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53. I guess I'm the only one here who doesn't like lady bugs
I use to think they were really cute until my building got infested by them. I literally had so many that my windows were completely covered and no light could come in. Somebody spread a rumor in my building that if you kill them they'll give off a scent that attracts more. I don't know if that's true but the problem didn't go away until someone got the idea of vacuuming them.

I do like fire flies. Atleast they wouldn't have made my room pitch black.
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