About a month and a half ago, I was given a real interesting insect to add to my collection. It's called a Hellgrammite. It is the weirdest thing you've ever seen. Seriously, it looks like it shouldn't be from this planet. Its long and centipede-like, but it only has 6 legs, like your regular insect. Because it's aquatic, it has fins down the lower half of it's body. Not to mention some pretty nasty jaws on the front of it.
Apparently, it is the nymph-stage of an insect known as the DobsonFly. Which has wings and even larger mandibles(The mandibles are not actually used to hunt or eat, just there to look nice and pretty for all those lady Dobsonflies. :p) The Dobsonfly lives for around only 7 days. But the Hellgrammite can live for a lot longer.
There's really nothing else thats super interesting about 'em. Besides thier alien-like qualities. Just another reason why bugs are sweet. Working on getting a full grown Dobsonfly to go with my Hellgrammite hopefully. Would look real great in my collection.
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In other news, The Dark Knight did not disappoint at all. Heath Ledger did an amazing job at portraying the Joker(My favorite batman villain.) from the old DC Comic material. Kudos to him. The only thing I noticed is that was not included in the movie, was the Joker's Hench-chic, Harley Quinn, who was a regular in the old shows. Other than that, it was dead on. Awesome movie.
Also, Orientation Day for college is coming up this Friday. Keeping that in prayer. Speaking of which, The new X-files movie is coming out that day too. Sweetness! Totally forgot. I even get to work that day! Yay! :p Oh yeah, it's gonna be a busy day.
...8 days till Soulfest \m/
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