Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Not on topic at all: Anyone into bugs??

Okay Rox, I found it:



Ian



Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin

Oh, duh, *smacks forehead* you wrote in your post that that's a carpenter bee. Well, it wasn't bee-like, it was more like this:




This is a paper wasp.


And it was even MORE like this:




This is a bald-faced hornet.


It had the black and white markings similar to the bald-faced hornt but it's wings were more beetle-like.....and it had that long stinger-like thing which I'd think is actually used to deposit eggs.

Rox

"I have seen the beginning and the end of our story.....the tale is crude and ill-conceived. We must rewrite the ending of it, you and I."
http://www.geocities.com/artisan1998.geo/index.html

Whoops! Giving proper credit for those pics:

Paper wasp: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Counties/Hillsborough/wasps.htm

Bald-faced hornet: http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpecies_LI.asp?imageID=18381

Rox

"I have seen the beginning and the end of our story.....the tale is crude and ill-conceived. We must rewrite the ending of it, you and I."
http://www.geocities.com/artisan1998.geo/index.html

LMAO! Yeah, and crawling on my window it looked THAT BIG!!

Rox

"I have seen the beginning and the end of our story.....the tale is crude and ill-conceived. We must rewrite the ending of it, you and I."
http://www.geocities.com/artisan1998.geo/index.html

...and before the peanut gallery has any more ideas, this is what it DIDN'T look like:


(http://www.atoyholic.com/features/feat19.htm)





Rox

"I have seen the beginning and the end of our story.....the tale is crude and ill-conceived. We must rewrite the ending of it, you and I."
http://www.geocities.com/artisan1998.geo/index.html

Rox, I just remembered that we had these huge hornets at the firehouse about 2 years ago. I killed them with some industrial strength insecticide. They were long, but skinny and almost completely brown. Don't know if that helps, but now that I have a picture of them in my head, I'll see if I can dig one up (a pic, not the horent ) and post it.

Ian

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin

Ok, now you got me going on this mystery

Rox, was it anything like this?


http://www.canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/species/insects/insectpages/Pelecinidae.htm

or this?


http://www.canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/species/insects/insectpages/Siricidae.htm


I had a grasshopper on my windshield the other day and he hung on while I drove 50mph to a store 20min away. I shopped for awhile, came back out, and there he was still hanging out. I drove home with him still clinging with the wind in his antenna. Guess he was on his lunch break or something

Hope you find your bug!
Kathy



"The most beautiful stones have been tossed by the wind and washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life's strongest storms."

Not sure of their scientific name , we call them wood-devils. I have never had any bad experiences with them , but they will sure scare the b- jeepers out of ya . We usually find them when we are splitting our firewood .They are no match for a good Collins axe .Ed

Hi Ed!

Wood devils you say? I always thought that's what Big foot was called.
Now those hairy guys would definitely scare me

peace
Kathy

Wood Devils
Coos County, New Hampshire

Wood Devils, (wood devils)
Posted to the IVBC - 26 Dec 1996 16:15:30 -0600


Many years ago I lived up in Coos County in New Hampshire. Some of the old men would talk about things called "wood devils" that live in the woods. There apparently were a lot more of these creatures back in the 1930's than there are now.

These Wood Devils were tall and very skinny. They are gray colored and very hairy. I guess that people saw them mostly when they didn't expect to. They stay in the deep woods. They can run very fast. When a person walked through the woods he would nearly walk into one before he spotted it. They hide by standing upright and still against a tree. As a person approaches it, the creature will stand against the opposite side of the tree. As the person passes it will move so that the tree is always between the person and the tree. If it cannot hide it will still stay perfectly still until it knows the person sees it. They make awful screams. They have a semi human shape, but their faces don't look at all human. I have never seen one, but the people who said they did were regular churchgoers and would strap their kids for lying. I don't think they would carry on discussions of things they made up.

Kyle Mizokami picked this up off the alt.bigfoot newsgroup a few years ago. He tried contacting the original poster for permission to put it on his website, but never heard from that person again. As the USENET is often treated as public domain, Kyle decided to post it to the IVBC.

Credit Source: Kyle Mizokami, 1996 IVBC






"The most beautiful stones have been tossed by the wind and washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life's strongest storms."

Rox, I had a bad experience with a type of carpenter bee that John was talking about. They boarded a hole into the side of my house. It was awful. They looked like the bug you just discribed. I know the type you are talking about that look like a big old bumble bee. But these too were carpenter bees and looked more like a hornet or yellow jacket on steroids.

Blessings to ya
Sarah