Wheel Bugs (Assassin Bugs)
We have a bug problem at our house right now.
We live in a fairly wooded neighborhood.
Who am I kidding… We live in a woods. Even the name of my street has “Woodland” in it.
Anyway, the picture over here looks harmless enough, but they are creepy ass bugs. The picture I have here is just a nymph, kind of like a pre-teen version of the bug, not quite as creepy looking as the ones I have walking around at my house right now on the deck. The bastards even have the balls to hang out on my gnomes. You know, now that I mention it, I’ve never talked about my love of yard gnomes, that’s for another blog post I think.
Back to the bugs. I finally did a little research to figure out what they were today and I’m officially creeped out, but now I know what yet another bug is in my yard, it’s the adult version of this bastard:
From what I read, these guys can bite if you piss them off, and I am assuming they are quick to anger as I was trying to get a picture of it and it stood up on it’s hind legs and showed me it’s nasty little poker thing.
Anyway… Now my skin is all creepy crawley. I don’t think the pictures do it justice as for how disturbing these bugs are. To call them prehistoric is a pretty good description.
Here’s another site (where I found most of these images) with some info about them: Wheel Bugs
So, now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
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this helped me with my report