If it doesn't sting, or bite, or spit acid, it's sheer size doesn't bother me...
Unless it's a spider, because FUCK SPIDERS!
Unless it's a spider, because FUCK SPIDERS!
Gigantic Insect Found in China Will Give You Nightmares
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Apparently, male Dobsonfly's have such poor leverage on their pincers that the bigger they are, the less likely they are to be able to inflict damage. Even smaller males are incapable of breaking human skin.RJ 17 said:
Watch out for those females though.
Doesn't seem functional enough to be scary.
The jaws are big but with those comically short legs it still just looks silly.
I'd be a little scared just because it looks stupid enough to hit me while flying and big and sharp enough to accidentally do damage.
The jaws are big but with those comically short legs it still just looks silly.
I'd be a little scared just because it looks stupid enough to hit me while flying and big and sharp enough to accidentally do damage.
It's like some insane individual mashed a beetle's head on a mutated butterfly.
*sigh* should not have clicked it but my curious side couldn't help it.
*sigh* should not have clicked it but my curious side couldn't help it.
I'm gonna be a special snowflake and say I don't find it that scary or ugly looking at all, about its only "intimidating" features is its pincers but I don't find those off putting.
Really the size is the main problem but otherwise whilst not a good looking insect per say, don't find it particularly threatening and would be much more scared of a small spider.
Really the size is the main problem but otherwise whilst not a good looking insect per say, don't find it particularly threatening and would be much more scared of a small spider.
That insect doesn't look like it could even hurt a human: The jaws on it are way too large and cumbersome. Unfortunately, dobsonflies DO have one of the foulest smelling "skunk" sprays of the insect world so... yeah don't scare one while it's in your hand or you'll be sorry in ways you never imagined. =p
Im calling fake.
We know everything there is to know about the world and we knew it all 50 years ago. We understand eco systems, the climate, evolution and we have identified everything everywhere. The world had nothing left to surprise us with the day we invented television. Therefore this must be fake because we have nothing left to learn, just ask Al Gore.
We know everything there is to know about the world and we knew it all 50 years ago. We understand eco systems, the climate, evolution and we have identified everything everywhere. The world had nothing left to surprise us with the day we invented television. Therefore this must be fake because we have nothing left to learn, just ask Al Gore.
As a proud Australian, I find it amusing that people think bugs like this are 'monstrous' or the like. I can't ever remember a 'small' bug or insect. I mean, even our cockroaches here can get up-to large lengths and fly. Yes. The cockroaches. Spiders on the other hand, well. 95% of the 'big' ones have non-lethal bites. It's the ones we don't see that kill people.
Not far behind I imagine is Japan, where they have killer hornets the size of your thumb that attack in swarms and have stings that cause tissue destruction worse than a black widow bite. 70 to 150 people die every year from these things! They are now terrorizing China.lee1287 said:
Yeah now if you were describing a hornet that size I would probably s**t my chair on the spot. My brain would send an immediate evacuation signal to my bowels!
For some real insect based nightmare fuel: why I will never go to Japan unless I can bring with me or purchase immediately upon landing a flamethrower
Yeah I think my horrific scary bug wins!
Um, I don't beleive that's real for a minute. It looks way too nose heavy for it to be aerodynamic. But then again, I have a healthy mistrust of any story that starts with "in China" or "a man in China." If this turns out to be a hoax, I totally called it.