The pics thread

I'm just gonna leave this here.


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Mama cockroach?

Cool story alert:

There are shitloads of cockroaches in the desert. I live in an older house that isn't sealed too well. Fortunately my landlord pays for the house to get sprayed, so instead of live ones I find like 2-3 dead cockroaches in the house per week.

I was working on the sprinklers in the yard one time and left a hole around one over night, the next day when I ran it, like 100 cockroaches scattered out of the hole. Fucking disgusting.
 
According to Wiki they are known as giant water bugs.

Bugs of the family Belostomatidae are fierce predators which stalk, capture and feed on aquatic crustaceans, fish and amphibians. They often lie motionless at the bottom of a body of water, attached to various objects, where they wait for prey to come near. They then strike, injecting a powerful digestive saliva with their mandible, and sucking out the liquefied remains. Their bite is considered one of the most painful that can be inflicted by any insect (the Schmidt Sting Pain Index excludes insects other than Hymenoptera); the longer the bug is allowed to inject its saliva, the worse the resulting bite, and as the saliva liquefies muscle tissue, it can in rare instances do permanent damage. Adults cannot breathe under water, and must surface periodically for air.[1] Occasionally when encountered by a larger predator, such as a human, they have been known to "play dead" and emit a fluid from their anus.[1] Due to this they are assumed dead by humans only to later "come alive" with painful results.[1]

In various parts of southeast Asia, the species Lethocerus indicus is used as food, or as a source of extracts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_water_bug
 
Mama cockroach?

Cool story alert:

There are shitloads of cockroaches in the desert. I live in an older house that isn't sealed too well. Fortunately my landlord pays for the house to get sprayed, so instead of live ones I find like 2-3 dead cockroaches in the house per week.

I was working on the sprinklers in the yard one time and left a hole around one over night, the next day when I ran it, like 100 cockroaches scattered out of the hole. Fucking disgusting.

Same thing happened to me except I was working at McDonalds and the manager asked me to pull out the stove to clean it and when I did......ya well you can pretty much guess what happens next.

I generally like all insects and they don't bother me much except roaches who are the really disgusting. Rats and Mice I find cute, but roaches need to die.