What is this insect? Warning: Close-up shot of big bug!!

[gritsar]

And one bit (pinched?) one of my chickens when she tried to eat it.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Chicken

 

[Camelot Farms]

I recognized the body shape. I had never seen one pre-bait...Ewww~

They are creepy in the bait box too!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Camelot Farms has it right, its a dobson fly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobson_fly

It figures. Only the females can bite and draw blood.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Chicken

There was NO WAY I was going to make it go crunch with my shoe. I felt like I was in some sort of movie, battling an alien with a lightsaber and a laser gun (er, large stick and bottle of bug spray).

 

[PurpleChicken]

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They are post bait according to the article. They turn into that thing, mate, lay eggs, and die.

 

[Emzyyy]

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Camelot Farms has it right, its a dobson fly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobson_fly

It figures. Only the females can bite and draw blood.

LOL!

Just like the preying mantis the females eat the males heads.

 

[Lu King]

We are getting some extremely weird looking bugs like in the area that I live in. Everyone is commenting about them.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Pics?

 

[daryl]

gross