I wonder if it's really pee. That particular dobsonfly is a male (big mandibles), which makes me recall the time when I was handling a male Luna moth. It had just eclosed (emerged from cocoon... the dobsonfly appears to have just molted "too"), and it squirted me with some runny white liquid. Me being me, I decided to look at it under the microscope. Turns out it was semen... which is incredibly weird to say the least.
I found a dead body of one in my apartment at the time. I didn't know what was scarier. The way the bug looked at the time with it's nasty pinchers? Or the fact that it had been in my apartment without me even knowing it?
August 25, 2009
It's high time we had another dobsonfly post. Enjoy this video of a dude handling one. And getting squirted by it. Enjoy your lunch.
posted by Raging Wombat at 12:47 PM on Aug 10, 2009
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Close this window Jump to comment formI wonder if it's really pee. That particular dobsonfly is a male (big mandibles), which makes me recall the time when I was handling a male Luna moth. It had just eclosed (emerged from cocoon... the dobsonfly appears to have just molted "too"), and it squirted me with some runny white liquid. Me being me, I decided to look at it under the microscope. Turns out it was semen... which is incredibly weird to say the least.
August 20, 2009
Wow. That just took the story to whole new level of disgusting. Thanks, anon3.
August 21, 2009
Insect bukake.
August 21, 2009
never seen one of these before...never want to.
August 24, 2009
I found a dead body of one in my apartment at the time. I didn't know what was scarier. The way the bug looked at the time with it's nasty pinchers? Or the fact that it had been in my apartment without me even knowing it?
August 25, 2009