It's okay, it wasn't too horrific, 'cause I think the bugs were dead, just like in the picture... I was just displeased to see nearly dollar-sized insects. ^_^;;;
Ya know, usually I'm okay with insects but for some reason both your pics and the stuff on the site you linked to... it just... *shudder* totally gave me the willies. I'm with kthrin on this one, I think it's all about the size. If I thought that the same bug was, say 3/4" long, I'd probably think nothing of it. But as it is.... *another shudder*
PLEASE, I beg you: if you're going to post pictures of bugs and other creepy-crawlies, please lj-cut them. I have a serious aversion to bugs bordering on the completely, pathologically irrational.
Even more funny is that, I've seen live cicadas and dead cicadas and the dead ones interest me more, but if I had to choose between a live dobsonfly and a dead dobsonfly, I think I'd choose the live one (excepting the ability of the female to bite). Why? I think I'd be intrigued because I've never seen anything like it before (much less heard of it before today, thank you, Laura). If it was like, a foot or so away or trapped in a jar, I'd totally be interested. But a huge freaky bug carcass? Just creepy. Thanks, tho -- it's been a long time since something creeped me out ;)
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I found out that only the females bite, tho.
DobsonFly (http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/dobsonfly.htm)
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if this thing had been ALiVE when bryce found it...ee gad would that have been a different story.
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