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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Dickie Dee on June 03, 2014, 09:38:58 PM

Title: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Dickie Dee on June 03, 2014, 09:38:58 PM
Who else gets these? How are these even a thing?

Most worthless animal. Don't know if they disprove evolution or disprove the existence of God.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCE4bUmQFM
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 03, 2014, 09:45:16 PM
Agreed, they're awful. I went to work one morning last month and there was a pile of junebugs in the parking lot that was literally a foot high underneath one of the large outside lights.  :yuck
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 03, 2014, 09:50:53 PM
I...don't think I've ever seen those.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Dickie Dee on June 03, 2014, 09:58:32 PM
Fuck they're dumb, even for an insect.

One got inside tonight and I grabbed a paper towel and stealthily inched my way towards it. When I was about a foot away it flipped over on it's back and was just laying there all

(http://i.imgur.com/rF6Qjkz.gif)

Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 03, 2014, 10:10:03 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/M2XHL4T.jpg)

:goty
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Huff on June 03, 2014, 10:28:49 PM
great video of a door
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Your Stalker on June 03, 2014, 11:10:49 PM
we used to get swarms of them when i was a child. haven't seen many of them since
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Yeti on June 04, 2014, 12:44:07 AM
Junebugs are kind of cute, much better seasonal swarms than these nasty fuckers:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Lovebugs.jpg/200px-Lovebugs.jpg)
(http://rawarrior.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Love-bugs.jpg)
(http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/lovebug02.jpg)
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Momo on June 04, 2014, 12:59:54 AM
Never seen this shit
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2014, 04:28:13 AM
Yeah, those are new to me as well.

Say, can any of FloridaBore or SouthernBore tell me what those insects are that look like mosquitoes, but apparently don't bite?

Just about any place with lights on at night gets swarmed by them, it seems. I was trying to fill up a rental car during a family trip in FL once, and goddamn if the locals didn't find my "holy fuck it's mosquitocalypse!" dance around the car to be completely charming and laff-worthy.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: thisismyusername on June 04, 2014, 05:07:02 AM
Junebugs are kind of cute, much better seasonal swarms than these nasty fuckers:

Cleaning your car of these. :lawd Why.

They apparently migrated from Central America to the South-East in the '60s.  :goty
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: The Sceneman on June 04, 2014, 05:08:37 AM
Yeah, those are new to me as well.

Say, can any of FloridaBore or SouthernBore tell me what those insects are that look like mosquitoes, but apparently don't bite?

Just about any place with lights on at night gets swarmed by them, it seems. I was trying to fill up a rental car during a family trip in FL once, and goddamn if the locals didn't find my "holy fuck it's mosquitocalypse!" dance around the car to be completely charming and laff-worthy.

Crane flies?
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: king of the internet on June 04, 2014, 10:26:45 AM
Ewwww, I hate them. The worst is when you're trying to sleep but they keep banging against the screen window (bzzzzz, ping x a million). Fuckers.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: CatsCatsCats on June 04, 2014, 10:40:35 AM
Crane flies (or skeeter eaters, a misnomer, they don't really eat anything) basically just exist to be eaten by birds.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 04, 2014, 12:45:04 PM
I wish all bugs would just die. Is that wrong?
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: TVC15 on June 04, 2014, 12:57:59 PM
JUNEBUG SPADE.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: Boogie on June 04, 2014, 02:45:05 PM
I...don't think I've ever seen those.

Odd, because we get quite a few of these fuckers right next door in southwestern Ontario
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: TVC15 on June 04, 2014, 02:49:15 PM
I've never seen those before either.  The name sounds more...cheerful than the insects appear.  I was expecting something ladybug-ish.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: bork on June 04, 2014, 03:35:31 PM
Did somebody say Junebug?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vInmy1-i-w
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on June 04, 2014, 03:56:21 PM
How have these things survived for so long? They're the stupidest goddamn things I have ever seen. Every time I go out for a cigarette there are like 5 on the ground under the porchlight, on their backs, just writhing cuz they're too fucking dumb to figure out how to flip over. What a bunch of asshholes.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: a slime appears on June 05, 2014, 08:20:40 PM
Junebugs are kind of cute, much better seasonal swarms than these nasty fuckers:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Lovebugs.jpg/200px-Lovebugs.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Lovebugs.jpg/200px-Lovebugs.jpg)
http://rawarrior.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Love-bugs.jpg (http://rawarrior.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Love-bugs.jpg)
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/lovebug02.jpg (http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/lovebug02.jpg)

I CAN CONCUR, FUCK LOVE BUGS.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: chronovore on June 07, 2014, 10:00:31 PM
I wish all bugs would just die. Is that wrong?
Yes, we need bees at the very least.

Crane flies (or skeeter eaters, a misnomer, they don't really eat anything) basically just exist to be eaten by birds.
Yeah, those are new to me as well.

Say, can any of FloridaBore or SouthernBore tell me what those insects are that look like mosquitoes, but apparently don't bite?

Just about any place with lights on at night gets swarmed by them, it seems. I was trying to fill up a rental car during a family trip in FL once, and goddamn if the locals didn't find my "holy fuck it's mosquitocalypse!" dance around the car to be completely charming and laff-worthy.

Crane flies?
Crane Flies are like oversized skeeters; these Florida things looked JUST LIKE mosquitoes, but nobody was reacting to them, so I assume they were not mosquitoes.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: a slime appears on June 08, 2014, 09:29:29 AM
Crane Flies are like oversized skeeters; these Florida things looked JUST LIKE mosquitoes, but nobody was reacting to them, so I assume they were not mosquitoes.

Yeah I dunno, we have a billion different insects flying around in the summer and mosquitoes are unavoidable so not a lot of people react to insects around here. You probably did see a mosquito. On the flip-side there's also a gigantic population of lizards and other insect eating animals so the balance is kept. Except for Love Bugs, fuck those monstrosities.
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: chronovore on June 08, 2014, 07:37:38 PM
Thanks.

So, I probably had mosquitoes so thick that they swarmed and covered the entire side of a 15-person cargo van in 30 seconds, and people were like, "Yeah. Those are mosquitoes. Big deal. Why is he freaking out?"
Title: Re: Fuck junebugs
Post by: a slime appears on June 09, 2014, 08:29:58 AM
Thanks.

So, I probably had mosquitoes so thick that they swarmed and covered the entire side of a 15-person cargo van in 30 seconds, and people were like, "Yeah. Those are mosquitoes. Big deal. Why is he freaking out?"

Oh. :lol

That's kind of nuts. Certainly doesn't sound like mosquitoes. It actually sounds like love bugs bug they're clearly different than mosquitoes, so I dunno!