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Posted by Dark Tree on Fri Aug 19th at 7:21am 2005

Hey Guys. I went to San Diego to visit my brother earlier this month and took some pictures with my new Canon PowerShot S2 IS dig. camera. If anyone can identify what kind of bug that is in the first pic, let me know! (THAT picture was actually taken outside of San Diego, at my Dad's brothers' house in Perris, CA.)

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It was huge! The length was like the size of my middle finger!

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How many birds do you see? ;-)

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Just for future texture stock

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...actually...to see the rest from this trip....just visit my 'San diego Trippin' webshots page:
http://community.webshots.com/album/427005464ToFeFy


...or....to see all of my collection....go here:
http://community.webshots.com/user/darktreemedia





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Posted by DrGlass on Fri Aug 19th at 9:17am 2005

glad to know I'm not the only one who takes texture snap shots on trips!




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Aug 19th at 10:55am 2005

Your shoes are on the texture <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

If you're really interested in finding out what that bug is, check out www.whatsthatbug.com. If you don't find it on their page, you can email them the picture of it and they will tell you what it is.




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Posted by Dark Tree on Sun Aug 21st at 12:53pm 2005

Thanks French! I went to that site and found out my bug! It is a "Tarantula Hawk"

I went to an info page about them and here is an excerpt:

Tarantula hawk stings are considered to be the most painful of any North American insect. Christopher Starr wrote an article entitled, "A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp and Ant Stings." On a scale of one to four, Pepsis formosa was one of only two insects to rate a four. This compares with a one for a Solenopsis xyloni (desert fire ant), two for a Apis mellifera (honey bee) and three for a Dasymutilla klugii (velvet ant).

One researcher described the tarantula hawk?s sting this way: "To me, the pain is like an electric wand that hits you, inducing an immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one?s ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations. The pain for me lasted only about three minutes, during which time the sting area was insensitive to touch, i.e., a pencil point poked near the sting resulted only in a dull deep pressure pain."

http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Aug 21st at 2:54pm 2005

Woah! Ouch, good thing you didn't get too close That's odd, it doesn't really look like it would sting.

P.S. The guys at www.whatsthatbug.com are always looking for higher quality photos of insects, maybe you could donate them the photo, most of their's are pretty fuzzy.




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Posted by Dark Tree on Tue Aug 23rd at 12:44am 2005

Actually, my picture of the Tarantula Hawk is now on the front page <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">. For some reason they rotated it and now it is highly saturated and looks like crap....oh well.




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Posted by Biological Component on Thu Sep 29th at 4:19pm 2005

i see 15 birds



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Posted by French Toast on Thu Sep 29th at 8:00pm 2005

You haven't posted once since I've been here... I think.

Hi!

I see a mere 14, however...




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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Fri Sep 30th at 6:07pm 2005

thread revival...


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Posted by Biological Component on Fri Sep 30th at 6:09pm 2005

Hi French Toast, yeah, I've definitely been gone from the pit for about a year.

since when did we have members #2000+ ???



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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Mon Oct 3rd at 5:12pm 2005

It exploded a while after I came in. The whole HL2 Mapping boom.



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