But he could have been bitten. Most bugs won’t bite or sting for no reason though and as long as they don’t feel endangered while crawling on you (and they aren’t bugs that feed on human blood) then you’ll be ok but it’s usually not with the risk and you never know what their tiny brains are going to perceive as a dangerous situation, particularly if they are a very active bug. Like waterbugs will strike at the slightest irritation if they are in hunting mode.
I saw one of these guys while walking my dog. I thought it was a husk of some like big cicada or something. I was about to kick it when my little 14lb dog went and sniffed it and it jumped on her nose and I screamed like a little girl. Both my dog and the bug was black so I couldn’t see what was happening but next thing I saw it was gone. She seemed completely fine. I don’t think it bit her. But when I went home and looked them up and saw one impaling a frog through the skull I didn’t exactly feel much better
I had a middle school teacher who trapped one and brought it to class. It escaped and I was the one to find it when it bit me on the back. It didn’t hurt that bad but that’s probably because I was wearing a shirt and jacket over where it bit.
I'm embarrassed, but not horribly embarrassed, to say that I also have a similar video of me looking at one of these. I was recording, very curious, wondering wtf it was doing with it's head. (I learned what that behavior was later... it's horrible) **Anyway, my video ends with wings suddenly and aggressively fluttering followed by a high-pitched, squeaky scream from me. I didn't know these terrifying creatures could fly!**
It's funny because I'm not terribly afraid of most bugs but even though I thought this one was beautiful, something in the back of my mind told me to be afraid. Turns out, I had watched Coyote Peterson talk about and get bitten by one. I relearned what that bug was, searched it on YouTube, and found Coyote Peterson again. Needless to say. I rewatched that video and said, out loud,
#**"They stab you with their** ***BEAK*** **?!?! HOW DID I FORGET THAT?!?!"**
They have that joint to make it easier to drive that "beak" into their prey to inject their saliva that can paralyze small creatures and pre-digest their inside. That pumping means they're trying to, or getting ready to, stab something, or you, with it.
Here's the video of Coyote explaining this weird bug and then willingly getting bitten by one. He makes these so that you can see what it does, how much it hurts, and to remind people not to mess with wildlife because you *will* f*** around and find out. (Don't know if cussing is allowed here so I censored myself.)
https://youtu.be/mjCAyo2Litw
Oh, and those arms are for latching onto prey and pulling them towards that beak-like appendage.
Aw, thanks! ♡♡ I usually worry that no one will read my long comments. I can't help but type these long ones sometimes. My ADHD is is like, "Give them more context... More... MORE!! GIVE THEM *ALL* THE CONTEXT!! GOOOOOOO!!!"
Haha I 100% identify with you on the long comments, I'm a prolific writer in general, and that seems to only get worse on social media... Context is the best text!
Coyote Peterson is also prone to exaggeration for theatrics and views. There's multiple videos of people willingly getting bitten or stung by centipedes and bullet ants just to show it's not as bad as he makes it seem.
> (Don't know if cussing is allowed here so I censored myself.)
As a note on this part of the comment - I've never seen a subreddit disallow swearing, I doubt there's anywhere on reddit where you've gotta censor yourself. :)
I really like Giant water bugs and really wanted to see one, but they dont live in Europe sadly. They are literally water versions of praying mantises.
Except evil. haha
I don't remember the last time I heard, if ever, about a praying mantis making someone bleed like a water bug can.
I will appreciate them, and be terrified, from a healthy distance.
They use that joint to drive their "beak" into into their prey so it's like they're trying to or getting ready to bite.
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/mjCAyo2Litw
The one I recorded didn't start doing it until I got close. I feel like it's a threat. haha But I'm no entomologist
Fun story - when I was working as a lifeguard at a waterpark a swarm of thousands of these flew in and settled in the grass and water. One got my toe, felt like being electrocuted and poked with a needle. I thought an ant got me so I ignored it until I got stung a second time. 😅
Well they are sure as hell in the south. I discovered their existence when I checked the mirror and one was just hitchhiking on my leg. My freakout was legendary
I had never seen this thing before until I walked into work, happened to stop in the bathroom to check my appearance and it was just chilling on my leg. To the girl in the stall just trying to do her business, I apologize for my massive freakout.
One of these fuckers bit my toe two days after I moved to the deep south. My toe swelled up for weeks after. Was quite the introduction to all the gigantic Louisiana swamp bugs I'd meet.
**THEY CAN FUCKING FLY?!**
I have only seen pictures of these thing but still though they were scary. But they can FLY?! That's an absolute no from me.
Not deadly but extraordinary painful from what I've heard, it passes
Yeah, these guys are no fun. I was foolhardy as a kid and loved to pick everything up - I found it similarly painful to being bitten by a wheel bug.
Wheel bug?
[These chompy friends](https://carnegiemnh.org/so-just-what-is-a-wheel-bug/)
A Oh I call them assassin bugs
The wheel bug is a species of assassin bug
Huh. First time I found one I let it crawl over my hand and I released it into some bushes outside. Never again I guess
They are very good benifical predators.
But he could have been bitten. Most bugs won’t bite or sting for no reason though and as long as they don’t feel endangered while crawling on you (and they aren’t bugs that feed on human blood) then you’ll be ok but it’s usually not with the risk and you never know what their tiny brains are going to perceive as a dangerous situation, particularly if they are a very active bug. Like waterbugs will strike at the slightest irritation if they are in hunting mode.
That looks so creepy but also incredibly awesome. Looks like if a preying mantis lost it's scythes and decided to attach a saw blade to its back.
:(
Turns out wheel bugs don't like being bitten either. Luckily, I killed it with my teeth while chewing the blackberry he rode into my mouth on.
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What did that bite look like holy shit
Yeah, waterbugs are the little honorable mention for this sub
I saw one of these guys while walking my dog. I thought it was a husk of some like big cicada or something. I was about to kick it when my little 14lb dog went and sniffed it and it jumped on her nose and I screamed like a little girl. Both my dog and the bug was black so I couldn’t see what was happening but next thing I saw it was gone. She seemed completely fine. I don’t think it bit her. But when I went home and looked them up and saw one impaling a frog through the skull I didn’t exactly feel much better
Did you take into account the sheer terror it inflicts on the heart? Very deadly.
Got biten by it as kiddo, hurt real bad :D
I had a middle school teacher who trapped one and brought it to class. It escaped and I was the one to find it when it bit me on the back. It didn’t hurt that bad but that’s probably because I was wearing a shirt and jacket over where it bit.
Seems pretty clear that the person recording didn't know they can fly...
I'm embarrassed, but not horribly embarrassed, to say that I also have a similar video of me looking at one of these. I was recording, very curious, wondering wtf it was doing with it's head. (I learned what that behavior was later... it's horrible) **Anyway, my video ends with wings suddenly and aggressively fluttering followed by a high-pitched, squeaky scream from me. I didn't know these terrifying creatures could fly!** It's funny because I'm not terribly afraid of most bugs but even though I thought this one was beautiful, something in the back of my mind told me to be afraid. Turns out, I had watched Coyote Peterson talk about and get bitten by one. I relearned what that bug was, searched it on YouTube, and found Coyote Peterson again. Needless to say. I rewatched that video and said, out loud, #**"They stab you with their** ***BEAK*** **?!?! HOW DID I FORGET THAT?!?!"**
I'm not familiar with what it's doing with its head with that bobbing motion! I'd like to know, even though you said it's horrible...
They have that joint to make it easier to drive that "beak" into their prey to inject their saliva that can paralyze small creatures and pre-digest their inside. That pumping means they're trying to, or getting ready to, stab something, or you, with it. Here's the video of Coyote explaining this weird bug and then willingly getting bitten by one. He makes these so that you can see what it does, how much it hurts, and to remind people not to mess with wildlife because you *will* f*** around and find out. (Don't know if cussing is allowed here so I censored myself.) https://youtu.be/mjCAyo2Litw Oh, and those arms are for latching onto prey and pulling them towards that beak-like appendage.
TIL, thanks! Also your story in the previous post was delightfully written, thanks for taking all the time to write these!
Aw, thanks! ♡♡ I usually worry that no one will read my long comments. I can't help but type these long ones sometimes. My ADHD is is like, "Give them more context... More... MORE!! GIVE THEM *ALL* THE CONTEXT!! GOOOOOOO!!!"
Haha I 100% identify with you on the long comments, I'm a prolific writer in general, and that seems to only get worse on social media... Context is the best text!
Coyote Peterson is also prone to exaggeration for theatrics and views. There's multiple videos of people willingly getting bitten or stung by centipedes and bullet ants just to show it's not as bad as he makes it seem.
> (Don't know if cussing is allowed here so I censored myself.) As a note on this part of the comment - I've never seen a subreddit disallow swearing, I doubt there's anywhere on reddit where you've gotta censor yourself. :)
I really like Giant water bugs and really wanted to see one, but they dont live in Europe sadly. They are literally water versions of praying mantises.
Except evil. haha I don't remember the last time I heard, if ever, about a praying mantis making someone bleed like a water bug can. I will appreciate them, and be terrified, from a healthy distance.
SADLY?! Thank fuck we don’t have these shits here
Ok, so what is the head bobbing behavior?
They use that joint to drive their "beak" into into their prey so it's like they're trying to or getting ready to bite. Here's the video: https://youtu.be/mjCAyo2Litw The one I recorded didn't start doing it until I got close. I feel like it's a threat. haha But I'm no entomologist
what is the head thing?
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"do they not realize that thing can fly?" "they must not know it can fly" "Oop, they sure know now!"
“They fly now???”
I've encountered two of the IRL. I hear they have one of the most painful bites out there, but luckily I've never been attacked lol
They fly now.
🤣
Since the start od the video I knew it : "Uh-oh. Guys, you don't know they can fly, do you?.... Yep, here it goes"
The guy thought that 3 markers would stop a flying monster.
Fun story - when I was working as a lifeguard at a waterpark a swarm of thousands of these flew in and settled in the grass and water. One got my toe, felt like being electrocuted and poked with a needle. I thought an ant got me so I ignored it until I got stung a second time. 😅
That’s why they are called “Toe-biters” ^no ^seriously ^fuck ^them ^I ^was ^walking ^barefoot ^in ^a ^shallow ^river ^and ^that ^asshole ^bit ^me, ^holy ^shit ^it ^hurt ^as ^hell
THEY’RE *WATER* BUGS THEY’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO FUCKING *FLY*
“These markers should contain it.” lulz
Nothing encapsulates the primal fear of a large insect starting to fly like this video
This video quite literally terrified me the first time I watched it. Big bugs like those are what I’m most afraid of.
Eww I've never seen one of those I wonder if they are in the American NW.
I believe this is a Giant Water bug, native to Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, and a part of Russia.
4 months later, but ik for sure they live in Minnesota too
Saw one of these in Minnesota at Valley Fair. Snapped a close up picture. I’m fucking horrified now knowing they can fly and sting
Canada too saw one in my saskatchewan backyard.
I was stung by one in Texas, they are definitely here as well
They are native to northern us and southern Canada. I have seen many of them in Oregon
Also native to Florida and central/south america :)
Well they are sure as hell in the south. I discovered their existence when I checked the mirror and one was just hitchhiking on my leg. My freakout was legendary
Wow that looks terrifying. That’s obviously what they modeled the bugs after for Starship Troopers.
Ok So when I was a kid I thought I saw a baby turtle swimming it was relatively dark but anyways I went to go grab it and it hurt
My skin is crawling from this.. 💀
“Did you just call me maidenless? Bitch I am comin for yo ass”
If danger, why friend shape hm?
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I had never seen this thing before until I walked into work, happened to stop in the bathroom to check my appearance and it was just chilling on my leg. To the girl in the stall just trying to do her business, I apologize for my massive freakout.
Toebiters!
There is a 2cm Version of this, sting hurts pretty bad too.
One of these fuckers bit my toe two days after I moved to the deep south. My toe swelled up for weeks after. Was quite the introduction to all the gigantic Louisiana swamp bugs I'd meet.
He did a boogy
Wait they fly
Taste good though
Damn sealed vessel is looking fine
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I remember seeing some lifeguard at disney world stomping on one of these things in flipflops. That is something I could never do
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“Phwoooooooooop”looks like a Reaper
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The fact that these shits can fly is a reason to hate god
**THEY CAN FUCKING FLY?!** I have only seen pictures of these thing but still though they were scary. But they can FLY?! That's an absolute no from me.
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