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Non-Cigar Related => How's life? => Topic started by: bmac7754 on 07/21/2014 09:01 AM

Title: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: bmac7754 on 07/21/2014 09:01 AM

Friend of mine was driving in Texas this weekend and these things were hitting the car.  What is this?

Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: tvolball on 07/21/2014 09:04 AM
That's a dead bug brother! :biggrin:
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: StogieDad on 07/21/2014 09:07 AM
Quotetvolball - 7/21/2014  12:04 PM

That's a dead bug brother! :biggrin:

:lmao:
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: bmac7754 on 07/21/2014 09:08 AM
That's what I thought.  These thing are over a couple inches long.
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: amigodecigars on 07/21/2014 09:14 AM

I hope that it is not a Rocky Mountain locust. Back in July of 1875, there was a swarm about 1,800 miles long, 110 miles wide, from Canada down to Texas. Be careful bro.

 In 1875, People said the locusts descended like a driving snow in winter. They  covered everything in their path. They sounded like thunder or a train  and blanketed the ground, nearly a foot deep. Trees bent over with the  weight of them. They ate nearly every living piece of vegetation in  their path. They ate harnesses off horses and the bark of trees,  curtains, clothing that was hung out on laundry lines. They chewed on  the handles of farm tools and fence posts and railings. Some farmers  tried to scare away the locusts by running into the swarm, and they had  their clothes eaten right off their bodies.

Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: nwb on 07/21/2014 09:17 AM
Hard to tell from the picture, but maybe one of these?

Giant Mayfly

http://www.insectidentification.org/pictureviewer/insects-gallery.asp?identification=Giant-Mayfly
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Mojo66 on 07/21/2014 09:19 AM

Quotetvolball - 7/21/2014  12:04 PM  That's a dead bug brother! :biggrin:

 

That, it is!   :lmao:  

Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: lubrix on 07/21/2014 09:22 AM
Wow!.
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: DonM on 07/21/2014 09:24 AM
Quotetvolball - 7/21/2014  12:04 PM

That's a dead bug brother! :biggrin:

 :lmao:
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Vroomp on 07/21/2014 09:52 AM
Someone needs to tell them they are a couple months late!
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Brlesq on 07/21/2014 09:55 AM
QuoteStogieDad - 7/21/2014  12:07 PM

Quotetvolball - 7/21/2014  12:04 PM

That's a dead bug brother! :biggrin:

:lmao:

 :lmao:
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: gpd4 on 07/21/2014 11:18 AM
Might be time to dust off the flyrods in TX.  Look like a hex hatch...
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: nirab on 07/21/2014 12:57 PM
That is a Texas flea... :biggrin:  :shy:
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: nwb on 07/21/2014 01:06 PM
Quotenirab - 7/21/2014  3:57 PM

That is a Texas flea... :biggrin:  :shy:

 :lmao:
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Ken Kelley on 07/21/2014 01:56 PM
Looks like one of them Big Ass Texas grasshoppers that got a bit scrambled by colliding with the car.
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Cfickter on 07/21/2014 03:03 PM

Quotetvolball - 7/21/2014  1:04 PM  That's a dead bug brother! :biggrin:

X2 that was my first thought also 

Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: bmac7754 on 07/21/2014 03:13 PM

Quotenirab - 7/21/2014  3:57 PM  That is a Texas flea... :biggrin:  :shy:

 So it's safe to say you are not the Guru of Texas Bugs (http://www.cigargeeks.com/../images/emoticons/lmao.gif)

Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: mpurtle01 on 07/21/2014 04:18 PM
I was gonna say mayfly until I read through.  That comes from fly fishing my friends.
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: nwb on 07/21/2014 04:32 PM
Quotempurtle01 - 7/21/2014  7:18 PM
I was gonna say mayfly until I read through.  That comes from fly fishing my friends.

Google search, my friends. :biggrin:
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Ken Kelley on 07/21/2014 05:34 PM
Quotenwb - 7/21/2014  7:32 AM

Quotempurtle01 - 7/21/2014  7:18 PM
I was gonna say mayfly until I read through.  That comes from fly fishing my friends.

Google search, my friends. :biggrin:


This is gonna take all night!  :biggrin:


Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Longhorn on 07/21/2014 08:31 PM
Quotenirab - 7/21/2014  3:57 PM

That is a Texas flea... :biggrin:  :shy:

:lmao:   :-0
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: McBryde on 07/22/2014 11:30 PM
That looks like a good ole' piece of trotline bait! It's just a grasshopper! My parents live up around Weatherford, and they have hundreds of thousands of them this year.

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Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: amigodecigars on 07/23/2014 07:06 AM
"Big as all hell and half of Texas.  Looks like he would’a ate anything that don’t eat him first.  I hope to be kicked to death by grasshoppers if it ain't the truth."  
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: mike46 on 07/23/2014 02:53 PM
Reminds me of an old joke my dad used to tell ....

Q - What's the last thing that goes through a grasshoppers mind when he hits your windshield?
A - His a$$hole
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: gitfiddl on 07/28/2014 06:25 AM
Speaking of mayflies:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/28/wacth-swarms-of-mississippi-river-mayflies-so-thick-they-showed-up-on-radar/
Title: RE: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: nwb on 07/28/2014 06:34 AM
Quotegitfiddl - 7/28/2014  9:25 AM
Speaking of mayflies:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/28/wacth-swarms-of-mississippi-river-mayflies-so-thick-they-showed-up-on-radar/

That is crazy!
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: bmac7754 on 07/28/2014 08:41 AM
That's nasty
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Rebecca Silverwolf on 07/28/2014 11:54 AM
Eeewwww.
Title: Re: Identify this Texas bug
Post by: Machine646 on 08/04/2014 07:22 PM
Damn that alot of bugs. Would have sucked being on a boat or outdoors
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