Bug ID Thread

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:35 pm

What the hell is this?

Post by **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:36 pm

bug id: 443893 - User receives Null Pointer Exception when they do not enter a name and press continue

Post by **robbiestoupe** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:38 pm

You have yourself a cicada, congrats! What do you win?

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:44 pm

Ohh i think i knew that... are they harmful to my garden?

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:45 pm

No. They are more worried about mating than eating. You should be fine. Now, if you have a few thousand of them in your garden, that would be a different story.

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:48 pm

I have only seen 3 so far.

Post by **LITT** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:53 pm

just wait til their gross shells wind up everywhere

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:59 pm

Fertilizer bruh

Post by **LITT** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:09 pm

do you have a pet

Post by **shmenguin** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:10 pm

my annual tradition of using my macro lens to photo the gnarly shells in the big tree in my back yard:

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:20 pm

LITT wrote:do you have a pet

I do, why

Post by **LITT** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:21 pm

King Colby wrote:
LITT wrote:do you have a pet
I do, why

they will enjoy eating the shells

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:23 pm

Nice. Is that pic I posted a shell? Or the actual bug

Post by **robbiestoupe** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:25 pm

Their shells are somewhat translucent. It's hard to tell from the pic whether Elvis has left the building.

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:26 pm

I'd bet it's a shell. Most of the ones I find are attached to something like that fence. Maybe it's easier for them to molt holding onto something...

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:30 pm

Ok experiment time lets see of my dog will eat it

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:33 pm

He said they enjoy eating the shells, not that they should...

Post by **slappybrown** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:36 pm

Kudos to King Colby for bringing this wildly popular thread back to 5AF. Really ties the place together.

I look forward to LITT freaking me out by knowing what these horrifying beasts are.

Also that cicada is clearly juicing.

Post by **LITT** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:38 pm

to get things started as the cicada was sort of a softball

antlion

Post by **King Colby** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:40 pm

F that thing

Post by **columbia** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:40 pm

Horrific

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:43 pm

Again...

I see these bastards 3-4 times a night

Post by **LITT** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:46 pm

house centipedes are your friend. they eat all the bad guys

Post by **the wicked child** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:47 pm

Petition to change this to LITT's thread of Nope

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:52 pm

LITT wrote:house centipedes are your friend. they eat all the bad guys

Oh I know. I have no other bugs in the house. They not only eat other bugs they are fast and hate humans so more often then not they skeedaddle out of a room before you see them. They also hate human food so that's not a concern either.

They are just so creepy looking and so...damn...fast...