What the HELL is this?!

Giblet · 30-05-2005 1:30pm #1

This...THING...just landed on my Keyboard. Scared the crap outta me hehe! The bastard flew around my head, horrible buzzing noises then settled on my keyboard. Anyone know what it is?

Only Human · 30-05-2005 1:32pm

Giblet wrote:

This...THING...just landed on my Keyboard. Scared the crap outta me hehe! The bastard flew around my head, horrible buzzing noises then settled on my keyboard. Anyone know what it is?

It's a bug.

monkeyfudge · 30-05-2005 1:33pm

Maybe it's an alien... has it typed out a message yet?

Giblet · 30-05-2005 1:34pm

It's trying! I think it's a Shield Bug.

jcoote · 30-05-2005 1:36pm

u didn't sneeze just before that did u

toiletduck · 30-05-2005 1:36pm

whatever it is, you can safely assume it's evil and should be destroyed

Only Human · 30-05-2005 1:39pm

Awww. Is that not the cutist bug you've ever seen in your life?

Edit:700th post woooooooo! \o/

Gilgamesh · 30-05-2005 1:40pm

you have a Buggy computer ROFL

RuggieBear · 30-05-2005 1:42pm

i think it's some form of shield beetle....

edit: bloody hell...i'm slow today

Dublin8 · 30-05-2005 1:56pm

Assylum seeker !!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

lol

deport him

jcoote · 30-05-2005 1:59pm

Dublin8 wrote:

Assylum seeker !!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

lol

deport him

Brilliant

Shabadu · 30-05-2005 2:03pm

Disect it.

Calibos · 30-05-2005 2:09pm

Thats nothing. One of these flew into our kitchen last week. You would not believe the noise it made as it flew nor the size of the thing.

Never saw anything like it before and assumed it was one of these foreign insects that came in fruit imports or something. Turns out its a native species!

DeBeere · 30-05-2005 2:18pm

hmmmm a cockchafer? what an unusually dirty name............ :rolleyes:

Spunog UIE · 30-05-2005 2:21pm

must be attracted by the furry keyboard...

Mossy Monk · 30-05-2005 2:47pm

you big girl

Creature · 30-05-2005 4:43pm

Giblet wrote:

This...THING...just landed on my Keyboard. Scared the crap outta me hehe! The bastard flew around my head, horrible buzzing noises then settled on my keyboard. Anyone know what it is?

That bug needs to work on its camouflage.

Rabies · 30-05-2005 5:18pm

Put it in a jar and keep it for a snack during work.

*adele* · 30-05-2005 5:29pm

lol^^^
give it a hat and stick and make it dance

Dades · 30-05-2005 5:30pm

There wasn't by any chance a little camara attached to it? :eek:

LadyJ · 30-05-2005 5:34pm

Kill it! Kiiiiiiiiilllllllllll it!

acri · 30-05-2005 5:35pm

Aaaaaahahahahahaaa! Cockchafer!! hahaha!

Cathy · 30-05-2005 5:37pm

Anyone know what this is?

http://compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~cathy87/IMG_1033.JPG

Only Human · 30-05-2005 5:43pm

Cathy wrote:

Anyone know what this is?

http://compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~cathy87/IMG_1033.JPG

Christ on a bike that made me jump!

Cathy · 30-05-2005 5:48pm

It made me jump too when I saw it in our utility room. Even my dog wouldn't go near it.

*adele* · 30-05-2005 5:52pm

Please tell me you stepped on it...hard??

Cathy · 30-05-2005 5:54pm

No, I ran away

NotMe · 30-05-2005 7:33pm

That would be a spider.

Altheus · 30-05-2005 7:50pm

My rules for creepy bugs: If it doesn't fly, it doesn't have to die.

Gordon · 30-05-2005 7:55pm

I thought cockchafers were Jewish trousers.

The Bollox · 30-05-2005 7:55pm

Cathy wrote:

Anyone know what this is?

http://compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~cathy87/IMG_1033.JPG

****, man, I hate spiders, and you say that was in your house? I thought I saw one of the biggest Ireland has to offer in my room last summer, I couldn't work up the stones to throw it out so I jumped into bed, covered my head, and couldn't find it in the morning :eek:
but that was just a particularly big garden spider, no hair, hyst a big ass and long legs, that blighter looks like a Black Widow

PurpleFistMixer · 30-05-2005 7:56pm

@ OP: When I was a kid we called them 'leaf beetles'. Fairly harmless, since I've seen many and am unscathed.

Dizzyblabla · 30-05-2005 8:02pm

One of these guys landed on my lap when I was in a beer garden in the states a few years back: http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/dec/papr/mantis.html
it was one BIG bug, I think it frightened more of the boys than it did the girls though!!

Naos · 31-05-2005 8:00am

thats funky.
Looks like a turtle with stick legs.

Shyster · 31-05-2005 8:39am

there should be a warning with this thread, i got the fright of my life opening some of those attachments damn you....!

WhiteWashMan · 31-05-2005 8:57am

Giblet wrote:

This...THING...just landed on my Keyboard. Scared the crap outta me hehe! The bastard flew around my head, horrible buzzing noises then settled on my keyboard. Anyone know what it is?

looks like a fine example of the 'Blonde QWERTYus Keyboardus'
with someones salad sandwich filler on top

tabatha · 31-05-2005 8:59am

Calibos wrote:

Thats nothing. One of these flew into our kitchen last week. You would not believe the noise it made as it flew nor the size of the thing.

Never saw anything like it before and assumed it was one of these foreign insects that came in fruit imports or something. Turns out its a native species!

i had one of these in my house before when i lived in bournemouth on the south coast of england...they are nasty looking. nearly the size of a small bird! yuck! didnt know we had them here....

joejoem · 31-05-2005 9:00am

Only Human wrote:

Christ on a bike that made me jump!

Ha ha ha god that made me laugh, Christ on a bike...... Thats a hilarious expression.

Mimikyu · 31-05-2005 10:20am

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bounty_hunter · 31-05-2005 10:24am

Cool!
Will you send it to me?

Zounds · 31-05-2005 10:54am

Those sheild beetle yokes have a seriously nasty bite, just to let you know, and i'm speaking from personal experience

Glipmac · 31-05-2005 11:00am

Get out of there quick and say nothing you're being bugged!

bounty_hunter · 31-05-2005 11:00am

It's ok, I'm invincible.

pretty-in-pink · 31-05-2005 11:35am

frick on a stick...this is one heck of a nasty thread, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my corner

/* shudder shudder bugs......whimper sob

Gilgamesh · 31-05-2005 1:59pm

Gordon wrote:

I thought cockchafers were Jewish trousers.

Naaa.... tis a Transvestite gang roaming Soho

Cathy · 31-05-2005 2:46pm

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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It's not quite as big as it looks in the photo, but it was still pretty big. It might have come in through the back door, it was in the utility room.
I had my camera in my hand when I saw it and I thought I might as well see if anyone knew what it was

Anyway, I haven't seen it since but I keep wondering if it's still around, in the cornflakes or something...

bounty_hunter · 31-05-2005 3:07pm

Thanks, you've just ruined cornflakes forever.

oneweb · 31-05-2005 3:08pm

I came across one of those things (original post) Horrid lil yoke :eek:

Pet · 31-05-2005 5:36pm

I don't mind spiders at all, but that is one scary lookin' mofo.

Only Human · 31-05-2005 5:45pm

Pet wrote:

I don't mind spiders at all, but that is one scary lookin' mofo.

It looks like it was just back from the gym.

*adele* · 31-05-2005 5:49pm

I had a pet praying mantis when i was a young boy...i er mean girl

What the HELL is this?!

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