Ok, I was walking my dog, my mom was in the yard painting something, I am about 10 feet from the front gate and I hear my mom screaming, "NO!!! GET AWAY!!!! AHHHH!!!!AHAHAHAAAAAAHHHHHH" I knew that that wasn't a "I'm getting attacked, help me," scream, that was more, "AHHH a bee!!!" kinda thing. So I get in the gate and say whats wrong and my mom comes a runnin(she has to use crutches to walk) and screaming, "get in the house!!!" I'm like "whats wrong?" and she says that there is a giant bug in the back yard, so I go look, and I see this huge black thing(she said it was turquise) floating there, making this realy loud droning sound. The body had the diameter of about an uncooked hot dog. And was about half the size in length of a hot dog too. And the wing span was about 3-5 inches. I saw this and ran in the house and almost locked my mom outside with it. She said it wasn't a bird, because it didn't have a beak or anything, and it didn't sound like a humming bird. But it was about the size of one. Anyone know what the heck that was? It was the biggest bug iv ever seen.
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cicada?
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nope neither of those, looked more like a bird than a bug...You smell like dookie... No really though.Comment
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wow i saw something like that once. still don't know what it was. thought it was a hummingbird at first but it flew closer and divebombed my head. then i saw that it wasn't a bird at all. i still don't know what it was.
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a large beatle!!!!??! im sure itrs not some strange new thingComment
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sounds to me you just described a economy sized dragon fly...i do like landscaping work for an elderly woman the next town over and she has those too...their huge, loud, and annoying...i always chase them with a large rake...and then they chase me...i want to bring my mag up there so bad and teach them a lesson...
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one time when i was in new york, we were ready to go to sleep and there was a thing quite like what you described except it was in aout house, and there were slanted celings and they were about 12 fee tall at the end so it was quite a trick to kill that damned thing, but we did, and the chase was wuite fun actually.... im done now. lets start a fan club, the "I also witnessed the really big bug bird creature fan club"Comment
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Hey, I know exactly what you saw. My family went to some nature hike, and we saw something like you described. At first we did think it was a humming bird, but it didn't have a beak. We looked it up to see what is was later, but I forgot! A mystery it is.....
Yeah, we could get hopper stickers and t-shirts and everything."I also witnessed the really big bug bird creature fan club"Converge KillsComment
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I don't know what they are called but I caught one.. it's now in my gun to replace the Elf that escaped when I took the valve apart... it works better then the Elf ever did!Comment
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hehe. kinda reminds me of hexen II. tome of power and the scarab. that was a hella cool weapon.Originally posted by Heat
I don't know what they are called but I caught one.. it's now in my gun to replace the Elf that escaped when I took the valve apart... it works better then the Elf ever did!
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i think i know where your elf went....i stumbled across an elf one day searching through my gear bag and doing obscene things with my mag so i took him and shoved him inside the valve...he works great...much better than a retro..and who needs a level 10 when you have a elf.Originally posted by Heat
I don't know what they are called but I caught one.. it's now in my gun to replace the Elf that escaped when I took the valve apart... it works better then the Elf ever did!
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trust me.. go with the bug.. the bug is waaaay better... LMBO
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I've seen things that could be what you saw. We have moths that are as big as hummingbirds and fly the same way....we call them "hummingbird moths". Yeah, I know, it's original.
But really, the freakiest bug I've ever seen (at least that's native to Iowa) is this big flying thing. They have four wings that are transparent like a dragonfly, but they have a long flat body. They are 4-5 inches long and one of the sexes (not sure if it's m/f) has these really long nasty pinchers. They are probably 1.5 inches long! I see these things in the summer at night around lights out at my in-laws acreage.
Bugs, for the most part, don't bother me much...except for bees. I had a bad experience with bees.
EDIT: Found a picture. Looks like they're called a Dobsonfly. (the thing I was talking about...not what you saw)
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I hate bugs with a passion... I am usually a pretty calm person. Its pretty hard to flip me out. Someone in front of me could spontaneously combust, and I'd be like "Wow, thats something you don't see every day."
Bugs though? Forget it. They creep me out. I don't know why, I just can't stand them. Usually I can maintain my cool for a little while if a large bug lands on me, but I don't know how I do it.
Little bugs, like flies and mosquitoes, and most spiders I have no problem with.
Beetles and larvae, though, forget it. I hate the damn things.
Japanese beetles are the worst. When they land on you, and they have those damn little pincher feet, ahhh.
One time a Japanese beetle landed on my neck and dove down my shirt. I somehow managed to stay calm, and get him out of my shirt without doing some retarded little "theres a bug in my shirt" dance. I did, however, do the cootie dance after I got the thing out of my shirt. You know, that little shake/shimmy when you go "UGH"
Anyway, yes, beetles and such will reduce me to doing the cootie dance.
No, I don't really have a point. Sorry
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