yeah - thats the kind of bug you write a feature (film) around.
Wow, that’s cool and terrifying simultaneously! Interesting bit from the article:
I’m not letting it anywhere near my banana.
I am sorry to inform you that you have begun to think like me. It is a terminal condition, and there is no cure. You may want to begin getting your affairs in order (or start having them, as the case may be). You will be senselessly dead in less than 100 years. Countdown begins…now.
Its aquatic and the article implies that the adult form does not have functioning mouthparts, so it’s probably like mayflies - living underwater for a long time as a nymph, then only briefly emerging as an adult to mate, then die.
Still, it’s surprising that something so big and conspicuous looking would go unnoticed until now.
it probably hasn’t gone “un-noticed” - only recently did someone decide - hey, this is different.
Someone decided, “Holy Mother of God, what is that?!?”
It’s just a big dobsonfly. It’s bigger than the average dobsonfly species, but it’s an incremental larger, not a revolutionary one. We have them in the US, too.
“Hey, this is different! We now have technology advanced enough to get away from these things!”
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You’re not making me feel any more secure here.
They have similar insects where I live!! Proof.
:eek: :eek:
Oh, yeah?
Check out this Arkansas mosquito.