# Entomologists: What Be This Bug?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entomologists-what-be-this-bug/295063>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 17, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entomologists-what-be-this-bug/295063 "2005-03-17T22:40:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entomologists-what-be-this-bug/295063/21 "2005-03-18T18:42:31Z")

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Perhaps [http://www.animationusa.com/wb24.html](http://www.animationusa.com/wb24.html) will remind you. It’s a wonderful cartoon; but anyway, the motion of the hammers on the strings and the mouse always just one ahead of the working hammer reminds me very much of the nasty nasty centipede action.

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**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entomologists-what-be-this-bug/295063/22 "2005-03-18T20:37:18Z")

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> [@Sequent](#):
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> from **yBeayf** ’s assassin bug link:
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> Dude! I grew up in the south, but I never came across one of these buggers. No wonder it hurts: you’re being _liquified_

Man, an immature assassin bug got inbetween my toes and my sandal last year. Wow. :eek: I’ve never felt anything so painful. I can only imagine what it would’ve been like if it was a mature one. And I still have a lump on my ote 'cause of it…

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