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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 3101521" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Every spring and fall we get lots of these up here, they're harmless but kind of creepy as 338 dude said, and they're heavy enough that they get your attention when one flies into the side of your head full speed!!!! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. This happens from time to time. I was just curious what people in other parts of the continent call them, always hear some interesting local nicknames for critters.</p><p></p><p>They are very proficient and vicious hunters in the water. They prey on minnows and small fish, other bugs, frogs and other amphibians, small snakes, basically if they can get their legs wrapped around it and bite it it's on the menu. They are a "true bug" in that they have no moving mouthparts, no jaws, just a proboscis tube which they pierce their prey with, injecting it with flesh-melting enzymes before "drinking" the liquified insides of their unfortunate victims through their "straw". I'm so glad I'm not a small fish sometimes….<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p></p><p>They wouldn't ever intentionally seek to bite a human but apparently can and do if handled roughly and confined against their will (which can happen if they get stuck in a boot hence the name toe biter), as would most any bug or animal. I've heard that it hurts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 3101521, member: 109862"] Every spring and fall we get lots of these up here, they're harmless but kind of creepy as 338 dude said, and they're heavy enough that they get your attention when one flies into the side of your head full speed!!!! 🤣. This happens from time to time. I was just curious what people in other parts of the continent call them, always hear some interesting local nicknames for critters. They are very proficient and vicious hunters in the water. They prey on minnows and small fish, other bugs, frogs and other amphibians, small snakes, basically if they can get their legs wrapped around it and bite it it's on the menu. They are a "true bug" in that they have no moving mouthparts, no jaws, just a proboscis tube which they pierce their prey with, injecting it with flesh-melting enzymes before "drinking" the liquified insides of their unfortunate victims through their "straw". I'm so glad I'm not a small fish sometimes….🤣 They wouldn't ever intentionally seek to bite a human but apparently can and do if handled roughly and confined against their will (which can happen if they get stuck in a boot hence the name toe biter), as would most any bug or animal. I've heard that it hurts. [/QUOTE]
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