r/whatisit • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 8h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/AmberCurious 8h ago

lol totally my reaction if I ran across this thing in the wild 😝

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 8h ago

Seeing that fly at me would EVACUATE my bowels.

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u/Glittering-Source-63 6h ago

For a good 3 seconds I thought you said excavate my bowels 😆

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u/RevolutionaryKey8565 8h ago

Might as well lighten the load

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u/FewScore6082 8h ago

The good news is it's big enough to realistically take a swing at!

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 8h ago

Yeah but that moment of contact is gonna make me turn inside out with discomfort lol

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u/FewScore6082 7h ago

Yes!

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 7h ago

Bro... Idk what they're called but in Vegas we have the beetles that look like OP's post but about 2 inches and all brown. Looked over in my small one person bathroom at work during a shift. And this fucker was 2feet from me with the wings up ready to fly. My face said scream, but my mouth made silence, as I flailed away with my pants around my ankles.... super fun times

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u/FewScore6082 5h ago

Oh shit I used to live in Vegas and never saw one.

. Or one never wanted me to see it 👀

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 2h ago

Only seen about 5 my whole life... no moment was a peaceful one.

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u/10303816 7h ago

PARRY IT

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u/GertyFarish11 7h ago

But what if you miss?

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u/Dingus_McCringlebery 7h ago

I stood up to a goose once and thats what he did

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u/Aclevername1000 5h ago

Haha! geese are poopy turd ass holes.

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u/Important_Muffin1 6h ago

Watching this on the toilet so yes

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 5h ago

Had a similar experience on a small shitter with a smaller cousin of this bug in Vegas. Commented in this thread I believe lol

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u/BZLuck 6h ago

IT CAN FLY?

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u/hackneed 5h ago

🤣🤣🤣 funniest thing I've seen all day! Cheers, good sir!

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u/Offramp182 9m ago

Bowels?! That thing flying at me would evacuate my soul!

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u/Own_Round_7600 8h ago

Yeah i dont want to kill this magnificent creature but i would very much like some sort of restraining order or preferably blood pact that it will stay at least 40 metres away from me and my dwellings at all times

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u/Camry08 7h ago

Blood pact: it stays 40 m away at all times, but you must feed it daily and it will double in size each time you do

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u/raptorgator0 5h ago

It already looks like it would feed on blood 😭😭

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u/kingweeb6667 1h ago

They're highly invasive and are a wood boring insect, kill it with fire.

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u/Xeriel-Beeblebrox 7h ago

I thought it was claymation or a toy and my brain broke in realization 😭

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u/Gal-XD_exe 6h ago

Crazy to think there used to be stuff like 100 times bigger and more scary, like the Arthropleura

So yeah, I would not want to run into that

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u/DeezerWeezer 5h ago

Jesus I read erection instead of reaction

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u/raptorgator0 5h ago

I'd start crying

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u/Cold_Soup3294 4h ago

It kinda reminds me of when I found a bigass dobsonfly in Arkansas. I moved her with a stick so everyone around me wouldn’t step on her. She was mad af at my stick lol but she was so pretty and scary.