there are two very beautiful ones out on our deck tonight !!

beautiful.....

My germophobia would never permit me to touch it.

wow, beautiful! were the ones on your deck that big?

jerseykrs said:

awww. you never played with lightning bugs when you were a kid?

Anxiety said:

yes they are... the female is alittle smaller ...we get them each summer

Anxiety said:

God yes! Squish them on our fingers so it looked like a ring. I think of that now and get nauseous!

jerseykrs said:

whaaaat?!?

They're beautiful... ...as long as they're in a photo.

Byron said:

i used to love playing with bugs when i was a kid. butterflies, stick bugs, praying mantises...i stopped short at spiders and crawdads, because i'm deathly ascurred of them.

In its final caterpillar stage, the Cecropia is HUGE! It is still blue-green, but the tubercles are all yellow and blue.

Mach said:

little raver worm!

Anxiety said:

true true

Anxiety said:

I did, too... ...except I LOVED crawdads, even liked getting my fingers pinched by them...lol...but spiders have ALWAYS been off limits.

A few nights ago, I went into the bathroom in the middle of the night, turned the light on, and saw this big, thick black spider sitting in the middle of my tub... (((shiver)))...I woke RIGHT the fuck up..lol. I couldn't go to sleep without killing it, but was too much of a wuss to use a rolled up newspaper...so I got the vacuum cleaner with the hose attachment...and sucked that fucker right up.

Now I'm afraid to use the vacuum...

Byron said:

i killed a balck widow yesterday ... cut it in 1/2 with my pocket knife

Mach said:

they terrify me when they're in that stage. I like butterflies though...weird.

Anxiety said:

when my mom and her sisters were little they'd take them and squish them on their ears to look like ear rings.

Mach said:

Blech...

I saw something like that at a golf course last week! My and my boyfriend kept seeing it everywhere and we were trying to figure out if it was a butterfly! But it was just too damn big to be one!

Byron said:

horrors.

true story:

when i was a boy, we'd just gotten home from dinner and as we were walking along the driveway, a HUGE HUGE HUGE spider was skittering across. i freaked out and stomped on it.

and hundreds of little baby spiders came crawling up from the bottom of my shoe and up my leg.

my mom had to run and get a can of gasoline and pour it on my legs to get me to stop having a mental fit.

Byron said:

Don't be, that little fucker found a way to crawl out of the vacuum, long ago.

Mach said:

Remind me not to ever, EVER go to wherever you live....

I'm afraid of moths and butterflies....and bees.

gemini13 said:

* REMINDER *

never visit the smokey mountians of NC

Mach said:

I want my mommy Me no likey the bugs

Anxiety said:

Ok, I think I'm now officially traumatized by someone else's childhood experience...

Sweeny79 said:

Um, no it didn't...I stuffed toilet paper into the vacuum attachment hose right afterwards...lol...

Byron said:

no fuckin way

Byron said:

Mach said:

Did you know that Cecropia moths are poisonous, but their venom is too weak to effect humans? Also, they're the only insects who eat their larva during cold spells? It's true.