bugs at bm

kic90army · Post by **kic90army** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:34 am

what kind of bugs are around at bm?

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:56 am

Natural or mutated?

barnz · Post by **barnz** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:51 am

Here are a few of the little guys that got accidentally packed up in our gear, we didn't notice them until cleaning up at home. (There could still be a few in some of our costume trunks...)

PS it should be noted that very few of the bugs on the playa sting. Some will nibble, but that's technically a different thing.

Post by **Eric** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:03 pm

Barnz- you got hit with Playsopods as well? We couldn't get the bastards off our dome after the Friday whiteout.

Luckily our camp is mostly veggie and they finally left when the neighbors started cooking bacon.

phil · Post by **phil** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:14 pm

> Luckily our camp is mostly veggie and they finally left
> when the neighbors started cooking bacon.

Ah, yes. The bacon pit of veggie doom. I'm sure you lost a few vegans as well as the bugs. Have you had bacon enrobed in chocolate? Yet?

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:36 pm

phil wrote: . . . had bacon enrobed in chocolate? Yet?

uuuuhhhhhhhuuhhhhh . . . enrobed . . .

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:10 am

I wll have the giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) with lemon and butter, and your house white.

Giant isopods are of no interest to commercial fisheries owing to the typical paucity of catches and because ensnared isopods are usually scavenged beyond marketability before they are recovered.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:21 am

Saw this one in '96:

Smudge · Post by **Smudge** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:48 pm

geez, this is like the tenth time I misread the name of this thread as:
"Drugs at burningman" and the second time I even opened the thread wondering what it was about.
And I'm one of those oddballs who has significant disdain for drugs, their use, proliferation or presence.

and on topic
I saw 2 butterflies and a large grasshopper.

It's when you're in an environment like Lake Lahonathan and become habituated to its austerity of life that you are amazed and highly appreciative or even awed at the sight of a single insect.

Anyone have pictures of the large preying mantis we've seen in the past?

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:20 pm

We had a friggin bat fly into the small dome this past year. Fucker got away before I could snap a pic. Anything that hitchhikes in someones gear, rv, vehicle atc winds up there.

TheJudge · Post by **TheJudge** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:09 pm

Occasionally I'll spot a scorpion, but they are rare out there.

Literally nothing grows out on the playa. Its only in the edges of the lakebed that you start to get into the typical desert creatures (snakes, etc)