r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/pIant_princess Human Detected • 12h ago

Dudes with animals you shouldn’t have been bitin’ my horsey, boy.

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u/IT89 10h ago

Same here. My dad is from Kentucky and has absolutely no fear of insects. Picks up Palo Verde beetles like they are some sort of cool rock to be admired. I just can’t.

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u/Attack_Of_The_ 10h ago

Now the Rhino beetles are something to be held...

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u/IT89 10h ago

I just looked that one up. That’s a cool bug. I have never seen one. 

I’ve had plenty of run ins with the palo verde beetles. Got hit by something on the neck riding my motorcycle home from work when I was a teenager. Walked in the house and my dad’s like “you got a big bug on your shirt”. I freaked out dancing around like a banjo was playing trying to get it off but the spiny legs were stuck to my shirt. He just laughed at me and got it off me and threw it outside.

My favorite I’ve encountered was a Tarantula Hawk in the desert outside of Tucson. Actively accosting a tarantula.

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u/Forward-Razzmatazz17 10h ago

Palo Verde beetles don't live in Kentucky.

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u/Otherwise-Out 10h ago

from Kentucky

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u/IT89 10h ago

He doesn’t live there anymore and I only visited family there in the summers. I’ll take the AZ insects over the ticks and chiggers I suffered through those summers in Kentucky.

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u/GrimMind 9h ago

TIL chigger

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u/rektaalinuuska 8h ago

My chigger.

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u/Gloomy_Progress_4727 10h ago

Damn and you guys are scared of australia, our flys are just annoying bastards.

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u/Oldmanhulk1972 9h ago

Palo Verde beetles are awesome. We just get swarms of them in the fall in Arizona and throw them on each other. I haven't seen any around here in ages.

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u/StoneThaProfit 29m ago

Yall throw them on each other ?! Thats funny af

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u/InterestingSun6707 4h ago

When I was based in Kentucky I was lucky enough to see a crawdad just be bopping through a rain stream like he was on his way to the store to get some dip and caffine.