Re: Introduce yourself
If you're referring to the bugs that make pits near anthills and shot sand to knock the ants into their waiting mouths like the sarlac(sp?) pit, it's ant lions or doodlebugs. Anteaters are cool too, though.
On a side note I was running for my life last week from bees when I hit a nest while mowing the lawn, luckily I have a lake behind my house.
EXACTLY WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING TO ME!
I ran into their "nest" (They burrowed into the wood of my deck) as I was mowing my back lawn. 3 stung me on my calf simultaneously and that reacted almost immediately. Then I come back at night, when they're SUPPOSED to be fucking docile and before I even spray, one comes out and stings me BETWEEN THE FINGERS! I don't even know how it got there. It landed on the webbing and stung in between the knuckles and my hand was puffy.
Good news is, I was stung since my post and haven't reacted, so it's possible that I'm not allergic, but I don't know why I puffed so bad.
Nonetheless, I still hate bees.
@ alias: i actually like spiders. Very few of them are dangerous, so I put them into like the same category as ants. Only difference is, as a kid I would handle both spiders and ants, but only ants ever bit me for no reason. So I'm actually partial to spiders. Sure, I still jump like hell if they surprise the hell out of me, but still.
While I was at college, I had this netbasket thing for my laundry. I had it next to my bed and computer cuz I was about to do the laundry. I bent down to pick up a pencil I dropped, and 6 inches from my face on the net was a spider with a legspan bigger than my palm. It looked like a mix between a giant housespider and a fucking wolf spider. Needless to say I flipped the fuck out, but that didn't stop me from carrying the thing outside.
To stress how big it was: I took it outside, and the door is about 20 ft away from a bench outside where a kid was on his phone, so keep in mind that he's actually distracted. I drop the spider right where I was standing and see his face go wide with horror from 20ft, before he yelled "Holy shit, was that thing in your fucking room man?" i still laugh about that reaction haha