daddy long legs.

[mightyfenrir]

Just for scale, those bugs are as long as 25 cm, or 9.8 inches.

They are banana slugs, which are yellow like bananas, and the size of small bananas. Sometimes the roads are yellow with hordes of them.

Once you've been with them daddy long legs aren't so gross anymore.

You know what makes a really cool noise but isn't nice at all? Throwing banana slugs in a fire. My pre-teen years involved a lot of camping and a lot of slugs...

[Thanatos]

What, do they make a nice popping sound?

[boofhead]

Dunno if anyone has posted this - from some dude at Yahoo Answers:

Please let's get some of the facts straight.

The daddy longlegs that is also known as the harvestman has no venom glands. And it is not a true spider, but it is an arachnid. The most venomous is just a myth. Although some large tropical species might bite a person, there will be no effect because they have no venom whatsoever. They are completely harmless to humans. They are omnivorous feeding on small insects, plants, fungi, and they are also scavengers feeding on decompose matter.

The daddy longlegs spider, although it does have venom, their venom is to weak to have any serious effect on humans. Like all spiders they are beneficial by feeding on insects, such as flies and mosquitos.

The daddy longlegs that is also known as the crane fly is a food source for many birds or any other insect eating animals.

So, whether you like them or hate them, they are just like any creature on earth. They were put here for a reason. They do have their part in the ecosystem, either as predator, prey or scavengers. Just because they may not serve purpose to us, doesn't mean they don't serve a purpose in the ecosystem.

So lay off the daddy long legs!

[mightyfenrir]

What, do they make a nice popping sound?

Oh no, you have to explore that yourself. That's one childhood memory that is best experienced first hand.

Dunno if anyone has posted this - from some dude at Yahoo Answers:



So lay off the daddy long legs!

I kind of did that...

[MasterInquisitor]

Covering slugs in salt is fun

So is frog racing, but I won't go into that. It's a lot crueler than cat racing.

[Thanatos]

How do you get them to race?

[MasterInquisitor]

To race cats you put socks over their heads then they run backwards trying to get the socks off.

To race frogs, you stick a straw up their butts, and blow. Once the frog is inflated, you let go. And they fly off. I haven't done this, but my friend has a video of him doing it. It does kill the frog though.