A very satisfying video - couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
@"Mystic Wanderer" - Why do you hate praying mantises? What did they ever do to you? Why would you want to starve one to death? They don't eat dead stuff. They have to have live prey.
I hate horse flies, deer flies, mosquitoes, spiders, bees - ANY biting or stinging tiny critter with way too many legs. I suffer none to live when I can get to it.
We have assassin bugs around here too. Fun fun fun! They've got a long gizzy like a straw attached on a hinge where their mouths ought to be. They just pounce on beetles and the like, and jab that straw in between carpace plates and suck their insides out. The ones I've seen here are a drab gray color, about 2 inches long. In Central America, they're tinier, but far more colorful.
Hurts like hell when they mistake YOU for a beetle. It's like getting stabbed with an 18 gauge needle.
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@"Mystic Wanderer" - Why do you hate praying mantises? What did they ever do to you? Why would you want to starve one to death? They don't eat dead stuff. They have to have live prey.
I hate horse flies, deer flies, mosquitoes, spiders, bees - ANY biting or stinging tiny critter with way too many legs. I suffer none to live when I can get to it.
We have assassin bugs around here too. Fun fun fun! They've got a long gizzy like a straw attached on a hinge where their mouths ought to be. They just pounce on beetles and the like, and jab that straw in between carpace plates and suck their insides out. The ones I've seen here are a drab gray color, about 2 inches long. In Central America, they're tinier, but far more colorful.
Hurts like hell when they mistake YOU for a beetle. It's like getting stabbed with an 18 gauge needle.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’