Other Y'all Ever See A Potato Bug Before?

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

Alright, story time:

I was just in my yard, right? We have a little garden, I was about to pick some tomatoes.

And then I SEE THIS WEIRD SPIDER BEE ANT HYBRID THINGY WALKING TOWARDS ME:


My sister comes out and says "Oh shit it's a potato bug! Don't worry they're harmless."

And then, I kid you not, PROCEEDS TO PICK IT UP -

 

[Nokumi]

Lol I would have smacked that thing with my shoe or run away like "NOPE!"

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

Lol I would have smacked that thing with my shoe or run away like "NOPE!"

I was gonna do that before my sister picked it up

befote she literally

PICKED IT TF UP LIKE EWW NOOO

 

[Nokumi]

Does it bite? I mean I know she said its harmless but surely it bites right?

 

[Ezina-Kusu]

So here is your answer: a potato bug will do everything it can to avoid you, but if you persist and threaten them, you can expect a bite. They have incredibly powerful jaws and teeth so if they bite you, you'll know it. They can also gnaw on you if you don't seem to be getting the picture.

 

[FloofWhispers]

So here is your answer: a potato bug will do everything it can to avoid you, but if you persist and threaten them, you can expect a bite. They have incredibly powerful jaws and teeth so if they bite you, you'll know it. They can also gnaw on you if you don't seem to be getting the picture.

I
HATE
BUGS
I'M PUTTING A LIGHTER IN FRONT OF THE BUG SPRAY

I M M E D I A T E
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F L A M E T H R O W E R

 

[Ezina-Kusu]

Ok ok calm down firestarter lol

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

So here is your answer: a potato bug will do everything it can to avoid you, but if you persist and threaten them, you can expect a bite. They have incredibly powerful jaws and teeth so if they bite you, you'll know it. They can also gnaw on you if you don't seem to be getting the picture.

I'M WITH FloofWhispers I'M GRABBING A FLAMETHROWER NUH UH -

 

[Nokumi]

Lol why not give it a slow and painful death? Grab a knife a cut off its legs and then drown it in water!

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

Lol why not give it a slow and painful death? Grab a knife a cut off its legs and then drown it in water!

I'm not that much of an asshole XDXD

Actually maybe I am -

 

[Nokumi]

I only have a dark mind that people feared since I was 6 year's old which resulted in being sent to mental hospitals throughout my life which was horrifically traumatic and I am scared for life HAHAHA! .... ;^;

 

[Nihilum]

I..that...- that satanic goddamn monstrosity is a potato bug? My god. Where I'm from potato bugs are those weird little things that kind of just look like a ball of dirt on your floor...



This seems like some kind of unholy alternate universe where potato bugs have morphed into mutant serial killer demons.

 

[Nokumi]

I..that...- that satanic goddamn monstrosity is a potato bug? My god. Where I'm from potato bugs are those weird little things that kind of just look like a ball of dirt on your floor...

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This seems like some kind of unholy alternate universe where potato bugs have morphed into mutant serial killer demons.

Oh....I thought that picture you posted was a roly poly...

 

[Ren126]

You have a weird ass looking potato bug this is what they look like where I’m from.

 

[Nokumi]

The hell? Why are there so many different types of potato bugs?! Also I'm pretty sure one of those pictures is a roly poly not a potato bug...

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

After looking at yalls potato bugs, I've now come to the conclusion that the potato bug I saw was some sort of fuckin like spider mutant.

Imma purge em from my yard tomorrow akjdkksnnsjd -

 

[Nihilum]

The hell? Why are there so many different types of potato bugs?! Also I'm pretty sure one of those pictures is a roly poly not a potato bug...

I think it's a weird north central Appalachian thing...there's approximately 5392235 billion different names for those things. I've heard pill bug, potato bug, roly poly, dirty little bastard, but in the particular region of Appalachia I live in it's always been 'potato bug'. But we also have the 'potato bug' posted above that looks like a beetle.

Everything is potato.

 

[FennecyFoxy27]

Lol, I used to call pill bugs (or, roly-polys) potato bugs because when they rolled up they looked like potatos. Now, I refuse to believe I used to call them this demon of a bug-

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

Lol, I used to call pill bugs (or, roly-polys) potato bugs because when they rolled up they looked like potatos. Now, I refuse to believe I used to call them this demon of a bug-

I hate that rolly pollies are some form of whatever the hell was in my yard

 

[FennecyFoxy27]

I hate that rolly pollies are some form of whatever the hell was in my yard

Lol. I have 4 in a small cage at my front door (the safest place to have them) so-

 

[FennecyFoxy27]

I..that...- that satanic goddamn monstrosity is a potato bug? My god. Where I'm from potato bugs are those weird little things that kind of just look like a ball of dirt on your floor...

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This seems like some kind of unholy alternate universe where potato bugs have morphed into mutant serial killer demons.

Yo that’s a pill bug-

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

Guys I...

I has bad news...

Pill bugs are potato bugs, the same thing as the image in the start of this thread...

 

[Nokumi]

Well F*quack!* that just great!

 

[Mel_Mel_Stan]

I had a "great" time exterminating these damn things from my yard today -

BRO THERE WERE LIKE 30 OF THEM SURROUNDING MY TOMATOES AND POTATOES AND THEN LIKE 10 NEAR MY FLOWERS

 

[BunnyVT]

So your Potato Bugs are Jerusalem Crickets

Satan's spawn of nightmare bugs