Michigan State Bug ? by Fremdfirma

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Michigan State Bug ?

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:22
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Friday, February 12, 2010 1:07 PM

Seriously, a local paper had a survey on this...

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CyberSurvey
State insect

Michigan doesn't have an official state insect. If you rule out the emerald ash borer and the gypsy moth, what should it be?

Butterfly 8.96%
Cicada 5.45%
Dragonfly 11.17%
Grasshopper 0.91%
Honeybee 7.92%
Mayfly 9.22%
Ladybug 7.14%
Mosquito 35.06%
Praying Mantis 7.14%
Other 7.01%

Goddamn I live in a bizarre state.

Then again, as (relatively) mild as this winter has been, come late spring, imma prolly not think it so funny any more when them damn mutant-monster skeeters descend upon us.

At least it's not Texas, don't even get me started.
http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/

I still have no idea what the "THINGS" are, goddamn bugs which come out down in TX in this MASSIVE science-fiction swarm around labor day (think it was?) and just cover the skies like it's the goddamn locust plague from revelations...

Only time I ever wanted to use my old M1897 for Anti-Aircraft work, yeesh.

-F

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Friday, February 12, 2010 1:31 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Cicadas, most likely. Crawl out of the ground in summer, crawl up in the trees, and start howling like a blender with a few stripped gears. Nasty-looking buggers, and annoying, but mostly harmless. Y'know, kinda like ol' Rappy. :)

But from what I hear, the mosquito is probably a good choice for Michigan. Y'all get some really giant ones up there. Down here, they tend to be pretty small. Oddly, they really don't bother me or feed on me much. I tell my wife that's because of all the evil in my blood; she's too sweet, though, and the skeeters eat her right up. We go out in the yard, and her ankles are covered in bites, and I've got not a mark.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Friday, February 12, 2010 1:52 PM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Seriously, a local paper had a survey on this...
Quote:
CyberSurvey
State insect

Michigan doesn't have an official state insect. If you rule out the emerald ash borer and the gypsy moth, what should it be?

Butterfly 8.96%
Cicada 5.45%
Dragonfly 11.17%
Grasshopper 0.91%
Honeybee 7.92%
Mayfly 9.22%
Ladybug 7.14%
Mosquito 35.06%
Praying Mantis 7.14%
Other 7.01%

Um? Firefly! Start stuffin' that ballot box!

Reads like a fleet roster.

Mike - we have cicadas here every 17 years. It's bizarre. I moved back to my home state 25 years ago so I've only seen them once. I love the fact that it's 17 years, like they have such disdain for humans they won't even go by our clocks. "That's one of our years."

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Friday, February 12, 2010 2:06 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Hysterical. I would say "only in America", butttt...

Mosquito?? Who would want that! I'm like your wife, Mike, they see me coming a mile away! Our yellow jackets, on the other hand, don't seem to like the taste of me at all. I'll settle for that!

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Saturday, February 13, 2010 8:19 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

At least we've got a pretty little fellow for California's state insect: the Dogfaced Butterfly.

Name ain't great (and I don't know WHERE they came up with it or why!), but on the other hand, who would possibly want a MOSQUITO?!?! What's wrong with these people, and why do states feel the need to have a state INSECT anyway?!?

(Hey, I'll reply to anything, even myself, to pile some threads up!)

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Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:40 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Nah, they're not cicadas, after interrogatin a few texans, come to find out they're called "love bugs", of all the wacky things...
http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/uc/uc-009.html

I just called em "The THINGS!" cause man o man, it gets so awful at the peak of the swarm you can't drive a car down the road.

Of course, that wasn't QUITE as bad as plowing into a swarm of those gawdawful japanese beetles on a Puch Austro at about 30-some MPH once, ouch!
(I don't wear a full face helmet or shield cause it feels like my heads in a bucket, so 3/4 openface with visor and goggles)

You know you ride a lot when you can identify insects by taste.

Anyhows, I think the survey went the way it did cause Michiganders seem to have a really snarky bent, and the idea of someone bothering to name a state insect and actually listing the skeeter just made that irresistable snark bait.

-F

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Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:22 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Wow, that's one hefty insect, damage-wise!

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Cars driving through these aerial orgies become spattered with these loving bugs. As a result, radiator fins may become clogged causing cars to over-heat. Insects spattered on the windshields can obscure vision, and if the dead insects are not cleaned off, they can ruin the car's finish.

I like your explanation of the choice of mozzies (as Jo--from England--called 'em), it makes more sense than any other explanation!

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