New 'hissing' cockroach

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If you think palmetto bugs are big, wait until you come face to face with a Madagascar hissing cockroach. It can stretch up to 5 inches and, when threatened, exhales air and sounds like a snake.
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Evolution can be a biatch :o

Full article here
 
Bah, this baybee has nothing on a Parktown Prawn.
The Parktown Prawn will hiss at you while attacking you with it's spiked hind legz.

Horror stories :
A disturbing number of her listeners describe moments in which their first realization that they weren't alone in the bathroom was a faint tickling sensation on their bare bottoms.

Ms. Crwys-Williams said her favorite caller was a woman who had been taking a bath with cucumber slices on her eyes. She felt something scratchy on her sponge as she soaped herself, and ran screaming into her garden stark naked. A brave neighbor, hearing the screams, immediately vaulted the garden wall.

Professor Crump said she can top that. A woman who visited her museum "to talk about some other bug," she said, had a daughter who woke up to find one on her pillow, staring at her.

"She screamed, and it was so startled it jumped in her mouth," she said. "When she pulled it out -- you know it has those barbs on its legs -- one of them got stuck. She had to go to hospital."
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[ http://www.melaniff.com/features/parktown_prawns/parktown_prawns.htm ]

It's a cricket though.
 
And I've seen some of these babies fly already. I mean literally spread their wings and fly! :eek: The scariest schit ever!
 
This one from Silvermine reserve in Cape Town

Scuse the dirty fingernails lol - my son had been snake hunting when he found this guy :)
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parktown prawns are horrible ... they are like the pissed of lebanese bullies of the bug world. i swear ive seen full grown rotweillers run from them.
 
Parktown Prawns are agro little buggers. I think I read somewhere that the females are the ones you gotta watch out for.

They always seem to check you out with their head slightly tilted to one side like a curious gaze then they jump at you as though you are a long lost favourite meal or something :D
 
Ya, beginning of this year, found a weird parktown-prawn-like insect. Was about the right size, but was slightly mutated. Scared the bejeezers out of me. Wanted to take it to someone who could identify it for me, but the gf made me get rid of it :p
 
Jeeepers crreeepers.....that is grose.......Madagascan hissing cockroaches and parktown prawns are scary. I live in a townhouse and ever so often after the rain, these parktown prawns, find their way into my house and it frrreeeeks me out :eek:. I've tried to doomerise it but they get defensive, so your best bet is to run off screaming or get someone to tramp it or chop it with something. :sick: That's worked for me.:rolleyes:
 
When I was in school I did a little "experiment" with a Parktown Prawn and a large rain spider. I stuck them in a jar together to see which one would win the battle. Normally, if you put a small insect in with a rain spider, the spider sits there calmly and does nothing apart from maybe shifting a leg once in a while to accomodate the little insect's scuttling.

This time it was different. The spider went in first and then along came the prawn. The spider didn't waste a second. As soon as the prawn entered the jar, the spider pounced and wrapped its legs around the prawn's body like a hand clutching for dear life. The prawn didn't put up much of a fight as the spider wrestled it into submission. About 30 minutes later I came back to find the prawn on one side of the jar and the spider on the other. Upon closer inspection I found that it was no longer a Parktown prawn but rather the hollow shell of one. The spider had sucked it dry within half an hour! Go spidie!
 
scariest thing ive ever seen in my life, and ive seen many - is the giant biting centipede from the Seychelles.
Ive been there a few times, and these creep crawlies freak me out big time.
The locals immediately chop them up into tiny pieces with a panga if they see one.
What happens is that they are attracted to heat. They can crawl up your bed and onto your pillow where they will try take a nibble out of you. Most common place is the ear for some reason. When they bite, you wake up in extreme pain, the poison causes your ear or which ever part got bitten to flame up to the size of a tennis ball. Pain doesnt subside until a few days later...
These things are long and ugly... stuff of horror movies...

http://flickr.com/photos/copleys/426361435
 
Man oh man :sick: I hate insects :( Lately I've been getting flying cockroaches in my house. They're nothing compared to the insects that have been mentioned in this thread yet they freak me out big time.
 
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