The Swamp

Is that even a spider on the bat? Seems to be short a couple legs.

No, it's a wingless, parasitic fly on a Miniopterus bat.

Holy fuck, that's a big shark!

This is revolting.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world ... ts-pile-up

Authorities say a swarm of mayflies was so dense it caused motorcycle crashes and prompted the closing of a Pennsylvania bridge.

The LNP newspaper reports that mayflies swarmed around the lights on the bridge and then died and fell to the ground, forming piles several centimetres deep on the road.

Pruitt wrote:This is revolting.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world ... ts-pile-up

Authorities say a swarm of mayflies was so dense it caused motorcycle crashes and prompted the closing of a Pennsylvania bridge.

The LNP newspaper reports that mayflies swarmed around the lights on the bridge and then died and fell to the ground, forming piles several centimetres deep on the road.

Fuck, it looks like a heavy snow storm. Were the motorcycles slipping on the dead insects, or blinded by the swarm and insects splattering their face shields? Every year we'd get swarms at my little league games the weeks they were mating. We played night games, and the swarms at the lights were unreal. I wish I had pictures.

Fucking mayflies. How do they work?

I woke up this morning around 3 AM to what sounded like a girl getting chased down the street by a pack of wolves. As I came to I realized that two animals were involved in a death-match right outside my bedroom window (which is right at ground level, since my apt is sunk). Animal A was making gutteral growling/hissing noises that makes me think it was either a raccoon or bobcat, and Animal B was making these strange whooping/shrieking and clicking noises. From the leaf litter and branches snapping, they were obviously sizable (and very loud). Took me awhile to get back to sleep.

Pruitt wrote:...several centimetres deep on the road.

We've all been there, right Pru?

P.D.X. wrote:I woke up this morning around 3 AM to what sounded like a girl getting chased down the street by a pack of wolves. As I came to I realized that two animals were involved in a death-match right outside my bedroom window (which is right at ground level, since my apt is sunk). Animal A was making gutteral growling/hissing noises that makes me think it was either a raccoon or bobcat, and Animal B was making these strange whooping/shrieking and clicking noises. From the leaf litter and branches snapping, they were obviously sizable (and very loud). Took me awhile to get back to sleep.

Don't blame me, I called you. Mr. Backpack and a Compass Worldly Fuckin' Traveller is too good to double-team a lynx in his own bushes. Maybe I'll find a game ocelot next time. Will that be exotic enough for you?

choice quotes from this article

...15-to-20 foot honeycomb...

They were extremely aggressive...

...gaping wounds, the bees shredded him basically...

bet this gave some little kids a nightmare or two. But the real reason I am posting this is so I can put the following joke in the swamp
What do you call a bear standing in the rain....a Drizzly Bear
http://wtop.com/national/2015/07/grizzl ... esota-zoo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Robin Ficker (super heckler from the Bullets back in they day) was there...but his outfit fishing is horrifying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc- ... esota-zoo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

wlu_lax6 wrote:bet this gave some little kids a nightmare or two. But the real reason I am posting this is so I can put the following joke in the swamp
What do you call a bear standing in the rain....a Drizzly Bear
http://wtop.com/national/2015/07/grizzl ... esota-zoo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

wow

wlu_lax6 wrote:wow

Holy fuck. Where did that person on the side of the road come from?

h/t

Sigh. My Twitter mentions are a disaster right now because of #junkoff.

Got stung on the inside of my lip by one of those little picnic hornets when I took a sip of my beer without looking. First time I swiped at it it stuck there, presumably by the embedded stinger. That was fun.

this could have turned out badly.
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sancarlos wrote:

This is wrong. Eastern kingbirds are found in the east. I see them rather frequently on golf courses here in Ohio.

Sabo wrote:
This is wrong. Eastern kingbirds are found in the east. I see them rather frequently on golf courses here in Ohio.

It doesn't say it isn't found in the East, just that it is found in the West. Do you challenge that other bird's don't recognize it's authority? And Ohio isn't the East, it's flyover country.

Ohio used to be the west, douches.

That made me laugh. Nice.

What happened there?

ouroboroops

My cat was playing with one of these in my apartment this morning. It was about the size of a silver dollar. Did that tarantula thing where it sticks it's front legs up in the air when provoked.

Cryptic posts in this thread, today.

PDX, what kind of spider is that. As dangerous as it looks?

And Johnnie, to echo J-lo, what happened, there?

Papal cross spider

P.D.X. wrote:Papal cross spider

Papal?

How bout:

I was assuming the snake thing was snake suicide.

tennbengal wrote:I was assuming the snake thing was snake suicide.

Probably could no longer carry the guilt it felt for the whole Adam and Eve thing.

An orca punts a harbor seal about 80 feet into the air. The money shot starts at about the 28 second mark.

tennbengal wrote:I was assuming the snake thing was snake suicide.

Yep. They often cut off their own heads.

sancarlos wrote:

tennbengal wrote:I was assuming the snake thing was snake suicide.

Yep. They often cut off their own heads.

Creepy.




Mrs. Simpson, Orcas are like people. Some of them are just jerks.

Okay, well that's not severing it's own head. That's the part I couldn't figure out.

Sorry for lack of context. Guy on Reddit killed the snake by decapitation and when he went to pick it up with a shovel, it attacked itself.

aaaarrrghghghghh

Massive crack opening in Wyoming.

As far geologists can tell, the crack formed as the result of a landslide: water under the ground weakened the land and helped it slip from its previous configuration. The result: the giant, mysterious crack. It's "not uncommon," CBS Denver reported, for this type of slide to occur, but it's also not wise for anyone to go near it right now—no matter how amazing it might be.

Good advice.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fo ... atlas-page