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Dan with his bragging must have a bit of the prehistoric in his DNA.
On the other hand I would freak if I saw any of them. China sends enormous amounts of goods to Australia hope a family of those grotesque things don't hitch a ride and they go the way of the cane toad. We must have a great environment for the fertility of weird creatures.

Now I just need Ausgirl to tell me she has a cane toad as a pet.
 
zwiebel said:
Now you're all getting cheeky. Just to calm you down, remember there's at last one insect who doesn't care about endowments - she's just interested in biting the head off her partner, when she's finished with him.

PS: Please never tell because I'll get in trouble, but this pic reminds me of Kimster, a little bit?

http://dududiaries.wildlifedirect.org/2010/10/06/praying-mantis-praying/

ETA: Resemblance to Kimster's avatar, not Kimster!! Paaanic.....
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SERIOUSLY?

Now you've done it!!!

alien-invasion.png

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/citiprime/alien-invasion.png
 
Sorry bout that SD, I added a video and wiki link.
 
tlcya said:
Sorry bout that SD, I added a video and wiki link.
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I don't know why, but I like to see how animals can be crafty in getting their meals. If a cheetah is chasing a zebra I root for the cheetah. :dunno: Well that's a cat so that's probably why. In this case they're both creepy, but the ant lion is smarter.
 
Mantis and stick bugs fascinate me.
 
This is possibly the cutest spider in the world, and proof that not *everything* in Australia will kill you (if you're people). They're so small, you could fit maybe a dozen on your fingernail. They're crazy colourful -- and they dance!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g
 
like this guy

credit photo: Igor Siwanowicz
 

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I love mantids too!!! I kept some really big ones as pets as a kid... but nothing as fancy as these tropical ones. I actually know the photographer who took this, he is amazing (and loves mantids!) - many of the best mantis pics on google are by him:

wahlbergii_II_by_Blepharopsis.jpg
 
do you have his name so I can credit him? I found it in stock photos
 
tlcya, they sell leaf insects like that at my local pet store. I've seriously pondered them! But I picked these instead (I have successfully bred them! yay! Cute bebbies!):

Macrobrachium_sp.Mexiko1.jpg
 
tlcya said:
Mantis and stick bugs fascinate me.
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I had to have radiation after my chemo. When I found out that you don't gain superpowers every time you get shot with radiation I was really bummed. The comic books had lied to me. I had planned to be stickbugman. I'm not exactly sure what superpowers that would give me, but all the same I was disappointed.

Ausgirl said:
Igor Siwanowicz, bug photo guy. He likes bugs. And he's cute! No wonder I'm a fan:

http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=1783374
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That's it I'm suing him. I didn't give him permission to use my photo? :snooty:
 
So, discreetly pretending the scary fact Kimsters caught me hasn't happened.....I found this ridiculous, made-up tweet link to bugs in Australia.

Haha. Anyone can see such critters couldn't really exist.

Could they? Please, my Australian friends, confirm it isn't so......

http://luufy.com/site/post/939/1#.U95t28saySO
 

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