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Posted: 28 June 2009 12:33 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Does anyone know what sort of bug this is? A knitter friend is trying to identify it. She lives in New Mexico.

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Posted: 28 June 2009 12:35 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Aww, it’s cute!

Who’s a pretty stripey beetly-thing? Yes, you are!

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Posted: 28 June 2009 12:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Well, due to the power of Twitter, the mystery has been solved already.

It’s a 10-lined June beetle.

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Posted: 28 June 2009 12:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Madmouse - 28 June 2009 12:35 PM

Aww, it’s cute!

Who’s a pretty stripey beetly-thing? Yes, you are!

Jesus the maternal instincts are in overdrive.

Someone hide the slow loris before she tries to give it a bath and read it a story.

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Posted: 28 June 2009 01:01 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Renquist - 28 June 2009 12:56 PM

Jesus the maternal instincts are in overdrive.

Someone hide the slow loris before she tries to give it a bath and read it a story.

LOL LOL LOL

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Posted: 28 June 2009 01:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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So, is an entymologist somebody who studies the etymology of entomology?  wink

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Posted: 28 June 2009 01:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Don’t make me destroy you.

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Posted: 28 June 2009 01:17 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Don’t make me send the giant mutant Japanese beetles and aphids and hornworms after your garden.  wink

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Posted: 28 June 2009 01:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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I think they are already there. I have lettuce at the new place, and something has been eating it.

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Posted: 28 June 2009 01:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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*looks innocent as he picks greens out of his teeth*

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Posted: 28 June 2009 08:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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Who cares what it is, squash it!

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Posted: 29 June 2009 10:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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I’m with Neo.  A good set of hiking boots work wonders.

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