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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 11:49am on 18/07/2007 under , ,
I was waiting for the bus the other day, and I saw this creepy giant bug perched on the bus shelter frame. It kind of looked like a big wingless bee, so of course I was intrigued.... except it didn't seem to be doing anything. Further investigation revealed that it was just a shell. Was it some kind of larvae? Eater from the inside out by a spider? Who can say! It was firmly grabbing on to the post, even in death, in impressive defiance of gravity. I poked it but it stayed stuck there. It is gone now - I wonder what happened to it?

ETA: It is a cicada shell (thanks [livejournal.com profile] aghrivaine!)



Not a bee?
A bit of a perspective shot. the thing was probably about three or four inches long (6-8 cm?)

Husk
Here you can see where it is split open along the back, and hollowed out inside

This is a trick angle - the post is vertical :p
One from the other side - check the spiderwebs

My favourite shot!
And one looking down from above, for extreme creepy!
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posted by [identity profile] insertfancyname.livejournal.com at 04:53pm on 18/07/2007
3 or 4 inches????! fucking hell! i´m NEVER going to texas
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 04:54pm on 18/07/2007
my memory may be exagerating slightly -_-

But hey, I've never seen anything liek it *alive*.... :o
 
posted by [identity profile] insertfancyname.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 18/07/2007
urrrh, hailing from the great north i´m freaked out as soon as the bugs hit the 1 inch mark, hahah
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 18/07/2007
Hee! Okay, maybe Texas is not the place for you then, no ^-^
 
posted by [identity profile] insertfancyname.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 18/07/2007
hahah, i know, i´m always all "ooo, that sounds nice, i really want to go to... oh, wait, the bugs. the spiders. ughhhhh." :shudders:
 
posted by [identity profile] sorceror.livejournal.com at 04:57pm on 18/07/2007
Hey, at least it isn't a walrus. :-P
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 04:58pm on 18/07/2007
I'm pretty sure Walruses aren't native to Texas ^_^
 
posted by [identity profile] aghrivaine.livejournal.com at 05:08pm on 18/07/2007
It's a cicada shell. Sometimes people call 'em locusts, too - but they're more properly called cicadas.
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:15pm on 18/07/2007
Cool! I wondered, but I didn't know that cicadas moulted. I certainly hear enough of them around though :o
 
posted by [identity profile] aghrivaine.livejournal.com at 05:21pm on 18/07/2007
Yep. My dog used to go bonkers leaping up onto the trunks of trees to knock the skins down and eat them.

And many's the grade school science project that involved the morphology of the cicada pupa, I can tell you!
 
posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 06:45pm on 18/07/2007
1 to 3 inches!

Makes me think of wolf spiders, which I think live in your area. I remember seeing a post on a message board from a guy in arizona. He took a picture of one on his bedroom wall, crawling out from under his dinner-plate sized, circular wall clock. Taking into account the span, it was a big as the friggin' clock.

It was a pretty creepy photo.
 
posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 06:46pm on 18/07/2007
Also, naming them wolf spiders? That is fairly awesomenuts.
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 06:48pm on 18/07/2007
We have them in NB. I've seen them, but not that big!
 
posted by [identity profile] wererogue.livejournal.com at 11:47pm on 18/07/2007
Wolf Spiders are awesome and also kinda scary, as much as spiders get scary.
 
posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 07:16pm on 18/07/2007
Hee, wolf spiders now always make me think of Wolf the Drow from this comic...and conveniently, he's promimently featured in today's strip! ;)

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