WARNING! If you don't like insects, don't read this post. There is a picture of a huge, freaky insect in it. A huge freaky insect that I just may run into in my yard!!! Scary!!!
So remember my
mystery insect that I took as part of Creativity Bootcamp?
Well, I mailed a picture of it to the Ohio Department of Agriculture because it looked suspiciously like a wood borer and thought they needed to know. The exotic insect expert didn't know what it was (not a wood borer - Pheww!) so he mailed it to an etymologist with the department, and what I happen to have is the nymph form of the wheel bug, a type of assassin bug, which is actually a beneficial insect.
BUT, it's darn HUGE and UGLY and SCARY looking in it's adult form. Check this out!
Yes, these are breeding in my yard!!!! Here's another picture of the nymph, but this one is scarier than mine.
So apparently, at some point, that pretty little blue bug I photographed is going to turn into Mama Alien, and then, just like the Alien burst out of Fisher, the adult form will burst out of the nymph.
To become this honkin' HUGE bug that will spear and paralyze Japanese Beetles, Ladybugs, Aphids (which seem like a tiny little snack for this whopper), and various other insects, and then suck their insides out.
Yay!!!
So, if you are as freaked out as I am right now, here are some pretty insects for you to gaze at.
Photos from
We Heart It, Google Images, and Me!
