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Strange bug!!!!
BIG UGLY BUG in the yard today. My chicks were trying to catch it but I don't think any of them would have known what to do with it. Pea green about size and shape of a golf ball. Flew away before I could catch it. Never saw anything like it before! Any guesses?
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08/10/04, 02:53 AM
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08/10/04, 08:31 AM
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Gack!  The size of a golfball?
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08/10/04, 09:40 AM
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Not a katydid.
Yeah, like a golf ball! My month old chicks were trying to catch it! I googled all over the place and couldn't figure it out!
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08/10/04, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Cyngbaeld
Not a katydid.
Yeah, like a golf ball! My month old chicks were trying to catch it! I googled all over the place and couldn't figure it out!
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Gack!!
I have billions of grasshoppers right now, but they're more an apple green than pea green. And they're not that big.
Maybe it's some kind of strange, deformed or something-odd-going-on bug? The other day, I saw the most beautiful butterfly with three sets of wings.  It settled in the grass and I got a close look at it --- and it was actually one live butterfly with two seemingly dead ones on top.
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08/10/04, 10:15 AM
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WEIRD!!! butterfly!! It wasn't a hopper. There are a number of pecan trees around here. It was about the color of the green nuts, but big and round. Wasn't a locust either.
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08/10/04, 10:18 AM
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It's not a stink bug, is it?
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08/10/04, 10:54 AM
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:no: :no: :no: :no:
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08/10/04, 11:15 AM
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A beetle? I found one once that I first mistook for a large birds egg! Gave it to a student who had a "bug" collection. Never learned the proper name for the beetle. Mostly green with grey/black splashes?
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08/10/04, 11:17 AM
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PS: Not a Junebug either, we fly them around with a string tied to a leg. lol
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08/10/04, 11:20 AM
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Not a junebug. It looked beetleish. (Is that a word?)
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08/10/04, 02:38 PM
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No, not a cicada.
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08/10/04, 03:36 PM
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OK, found our "Simon & Schusters" bug book. Largest one I can find is a Hercules beetle, 40-60mm. This one is a yellowish green with brown/black speckles on its back. Looks like ya splattered the bacon grease on him.
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08/10/04, 03:41 PM
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08/10/04, 03:44 PM
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GACK!!!!!
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08/10/04, 03:45 PM
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Cool Crafty!
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08/10/04, 03:50 PM
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 THAT'S IT!!!!!!
I was beginning to think I was seeing things! :haha: :haha:
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08/10/04, 03:55 PM
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Some info, maybe more then you want to know............
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Critt...s/hercules.htm
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08/10/04, 04:02 PM
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It was a female. They apparently don't have the horn. Never knew they were in this area. Thanks.
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