Friday, August 05, 2005

Giant water bugs




Lethocerus americanus, better known as the giant water bug. How giant you ask? Well, it is big enough to be a predator!! It eats small fish, tadpoles, snails and what not. Anyway, imagine how nasty it is to see one that is about half the length of a dollar bill!! NOW picture how nasty it is to put one in your mouth… no wait, just look at the picture.

Tasting notes:
Nasty. Bitter and tasted like some nasty poison. (please check back in a few days to make sure I am still alive)

Gross Factor:
Extremely sickening, disgusting, and foul. I was only able to take one bite.

15 hydro comments:

Evomac said...

Those look delicious... I hope you saved me one of those.

Seriously - strange insects imported from Taiwan = not good idea.

Now eat the scorpions!

Jean said...

Wow! I mean, wow, I can't beleive you ate that... for that courage I think I will link you to my blog.

FreeThinker said...

I just lost my appetite.

kng said...

u should be a contestant on Fear Factor

mike. said...

Cheers for the kind words! And as for those... I think there's a few in my apartment's basement if you want.

Carrie said...

i got three words for u Gus...NICE FACE DUDE

Carrie said...

Can you cook some of those up for me the next time I am at your pad...I mean they look delisc...

Hulabelly said...

I love your blog! Is it ALL food? Very shiny!

IsleGoddess said...

Seriously, why would you want to do such a thing as eat one of those? I hope you won one heck of a bet. :-)

Carrie said...

Just checking back to see if your still alive after eating that giant water but that looked oh so appetizing...

Jenn said...

Holy yuck, Batman!! I couldn't really look at the picture. I barely glanced at it and started feeling like something was crawling on me. Eeeww. You're a soldier!

Anonymous said...

Is that what you tried to scare me with in your bathroom?

Bighead said...

Hey brave guy! Thanks for droping a comment in my blog! Ay... still can't get shake off the sight of u chewing up the creepy thing... Yucks =S.

Carrie said...

seriously...that is f*cking destusting

Carrie said...

why do i still laugh everytime i look at this pic?