Recognize this bug?

[Smellincoffee]

Today at my grandparents, my niece spotted an odd pair of creatures clinging to the side of the house. I gently manuevered them onto the porch so I could examine them better, but my usual source of entomology isn't quite sure what to make of them. I assume they are a mating pair.

Edit: My 'usual source' has timidly identified them..

"Anisomorpha buprestoides is particularly well known for its very potent chemical defense spray which it deploys from a pair of glands which open at the front of its thorax. The "Devil rider" name for this insect likely comes from this defense, as well as the fact that they are most frequently encountered in the late summer and fall when they are active adults at a time when almost all of them are found in mating pairs, with the smaller male riding on the back of the larger female."

 

[Shaihulud]

This is some kind of stick insect, I think.

 

[Berzerker]

looks familiar, we got em around here I think. Its the chiggers that kill me, they make ticks and fleas look benign. Not that you can see the buggers, but I remember reading Morgan Freeman's account of their experience with the little devils while filming Glory. He's from Mississippi I think so he knows, but for a bunch of the cast and crew it was their first experience.

sorry, had to rant

I did not know those bugs got a potent chemical defense, course I never provoke them.

 

[Skwink]

This is some kind of stick insect, I think.

What are you talking about? This is obviously a type of mammal.

 

[warpus]

Looks like my ex-wife

 

[mayor]

does that make you the smaller male?

 

[Tycho Brahe]

does that make you the smaller male?

No no. His exwife has two heads and twelve legs. Much like his mother.

 

[warpus]

does that make you the smaller male?

No, that's Jarvis, who is going down.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I have to say, the fact that the dudebug rides on his womanbug everywhere kinda makes this awesome.

 

[strijder20]

Wrong forum. Post it in this part of Civfanatics:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=390

 

[Boundless]

I have been informed that those are stickinsects harmless

 

[NetGear]

found in mating pairs, with the smaller male riding on the back of the larger female."

Banned for posting insect porn?

 

[G-Max]

Rule 34. No exceptions.