Killer Bug!

What actually turned out to be a harmless lanternfly scared the hell out of us uninitiated westerners!
Has a head on it like a flying hippo. Excert from encyclo: "Despite its name, it is not a fly and does not produce light. Many species have the head enlarged and protruding forward between the eyes. In some cases, this outgrowth is almost as long as the rest of the body and decorated with spines, bumps and curious patterning. The example illustrated is a large South American species, in which the outgrowth resembles the head of an alligator or crocodile. The purpose of such an elaborate feature is unknown."" No sh*t!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• guatemala
• bugs
• flying
• scary
• killer
• myth

[polecobre]

yeah man i saw a lot of this bugs in Panama they were in a tree called algarroba and they wre greenish almost grey and ugly don know the name of it but that was in the province of Chiriqui,district of renacimiento, funylol

[Gunskill94]

wouldnt wanna get bit from that thing, eh?