What's your favorite bug and why?

[RedCloud]

I like dung beetles. Can you imagine the table conversations?

[ohiosmith]

1. Just for you. Snapped them in South Africa last year.

[RedCloud]

3. thanks. reminds me of one of those outhouse wall sayings...

People who write on outhouse walls...

[ohiosmith]

7. Recall it well.

:thumbsup:

[GoCubsGo]

2. They're mine, too!

[Kali]

4. ooo yes I love dung beetles too

but when I read your question spiders came to my brain first

they don't bother me at all - like them around catching the flies and other crap I DON'T really care for.

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. Butterflies maybe. Except not the aggressive ones.

[rbnyc]

6. Dragonflies!

I love them for their variety, beauty and mystique.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. so pretty

:loveya:

[Odin2005]

32. They are ancient, pretty, and eat mosqitoes! What's not to like?

[BiggJawn]

8. Vibroplex

Because those guys who use computer programs to copy Morse can't read it, but a REAL telegrapher can.

[Enrique]

9. the Elvis bug

for obvious reasons

[nolabear]

10. Preying Mantis.

They're just cool.

[alphafemale]

23. I love how they turn their head and look at you. nt

[pokerfan]

29. Praying Mantis

Easily my favorite insect...

[XemaSab]

11. Parasitic wasps are pretty cool

:D

[femmocrat]

12. Lady bugs.

Because they are cute and are good for my flowers. :)

[pacalo]

16. And the cutest car was modeled after them. :)

[pokerfan]

13. Without question, my favorite bug

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant?
A: A mad scientist.

Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums?
A: Warning label.

Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A: Successive approximations.

Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider?
A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)

Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605.

Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"?
A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

[BlueIris]

15. Woolly caterpillar.

So damn cute. They look like a cross between a calico cat and a caterpillar.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. No love for fleas here?

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[Flaxbee]

18. spiders, bees, ladybugs, preying mantises, dragonflies (or "snake doctors"

as my husband calls them).

Hm. Saw this really cool moth the other day that looked like a hummingbird.

Butterflies!

Woolly caterpillars!

Beetles can be beautiful.

If they want to suck my blood or my animals' blood (fleas, ticks, mosquitoes) or invade my food (roaches, flies/maggots - though I have no real problem with ants) or use me/my animals as some other sort of host to further their parasitic designs, they do not please me and will be eliminated.

But otherwise, bugs are cool.

[Demoiselle]

37. All of the above....

And I don't like the little bloodsuckers either...

[Graybeard]

19. Another vote for the dung beetle.

Spends it's entire life pushing around manure. Sound familiar?

But on the up-side the dung beetle was worshiped by the Ancient Egyptians and immortalized in their scarabs and religious symbols.

[seaglass]

20. Truly bizarre coincidence

My daughter is student teaching 4th grade and came home yesterday freaked out because one of the kids has lice and my daughter had touched the girl's head. While I was checking my daughter's head I reminded her of a drawing my son had made when he was little that I had hanging in my office:

My favorite bug is:
Lice

with a nice picture of giant lice :rofl:

[geardaddy]

21. Bumble bees, praying mantisessss.

[KamaAina]

22. The one where Intel chips couldn't do floating-point math

leading to the classic line "Intel engineers support the 48.99999999973ers!" :rofl:

[MrScorpio]

24. Honeybees

Because they make HONEY!

[RebelOne]

25. Have no favorite. I hate all them creepy crawlers. n/t

[sakabatou]

26. Jewel beetles

[Zorra]

27. Butterflies, nt

[Abin Sur]

28. None of them.

Don't like bugs.

[astral]

30. Moths. They are like little fluffy birdies.

: ) And butterflies and dragonflies and those flies with the long translucent wings that stand up straight, and of course ladybugs . . . Caterpillars but only if they're fuzzy . . . .

I. Just. Hate. Spiders.

And too many periods in one sentence. I hate that too.

Oops I am posting in the old news again.

Did I say bees?

[Odin2005]

31. Blue darner dragonflies. So pretty!

[BrendaBrick]

33. Grasshoppers

Growing up in Miami, we had a bunch of cool-looking bugs!

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. This one:

drove it for years and years, great gas mileage and easy to tune up, hardly any maintenance costs.
:evilgrin:

[Gabi Hayes]

35. nooooo......this one:

[Gabi Hayes]

36. AWEsome mandibles

[BrendaBrick]

39. I had one like that too!

The pressure for the windshield wiper fluid came from the spare tire under the hood! :-) Cool engineering ~

[whistler162]

The first one of course......

http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bug.htm

[whistler162]

38. The first one of course......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H96566k.jpg

[stuntcat]

40. Beeeeeeeeeees zzzzzzz

Anyone who eats anything has bees to thank for making everything grow!! But also I like spiders and butterflies and all that!

Everything except wasps and grubs. Grubs and wasps are two things I could live without.

[nytemare]

41. Fireflies!