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Yzarro — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 14:38:31 -0000

I first heard of Stinkhorn Fungi in TES IV: Oblivion. I should've guessed that it was real.

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J. Wojcik — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:23:25 -0000

I have cone snails in a different article, about predatory gastropods :D

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Sabrina — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:24:30 -0000

Cone snails look harmless but they are not!!! Look em up!

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J. Wojcik — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:13:48 -0000

I'm afraid burying beetles would beat any parasite or parasitoid with their pumpkin-like markings alone, really; my idea for this article wasn't just super-creepy animals, but animals who have a distinct appearance that really could have become "iconic" to Halloween had people noticed them sooner. Phorid flies look like many other flies and gnats, so it'd be hard to make them into really comprehensible mascots. Shrikes don't look spooky, but at least have their own unique markings kinda :)

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crocoshark — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:28:11 -0000

I think phorid flies are hard competition for the burying beetle. I know you're aware of them but to sum up, they show up at a fire ant colony and their presence reduces one of nature's great super-organisms to a panic. Their FEAR spurs the phorid flies into a mating frenzy and once fertilized they do the implanting eggs in their bodies thing. Infected ants will become mindless wanderers, like zombies, and eventually they're heads fall of, decapitated from within. But the most Halloween thing of all; ants that are killed in the phorid fly onslaught are put to the side in what amounts to a makeshift ant graveyard and soon, the phorid flies will rise from this graveyard, and the nightmare will woon begin anew. So, a) they are triggered by, you could say empowered by, fear. and b) their life cycle involves a hoard of monsters rising from "graves" that they inhabit, to wreak terror and c) it turns ant victims to brainless zombies (sure, other animals do that, which is why I mentioned it last)

Then there's a variety of assassin bug that dresses up. As a pile of corpses. It covers it's body with dead bugs it killed as a disguise to ambush prey. Nature's Leatherface. And then their's the digesting and sucking out the fluids of prey but lots of insects and arachnids do that.

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J. Wojcik — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:37:48 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watc... oh wait, here!

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J. Wojcik — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:35:56 -0000

Not that I've found : (

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PartlySmith — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:25:09 -0000

Are there any videos of the death's head moth's "scream"?

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J. Wojcik — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:51:57 -0000

I know, seems like 10% of people have this problem but there's been absolutely no way to figure out what causes it :/

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GR — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:38:38 -0000

Cool site. I bookmarked it and will visit frequently.

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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:54:21 -0000

the text often overlaps/underlaps your images/titles

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Ben — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:15:50 -0000

I love it! Especially the last one. Bug? Check! Bug crawling with bugs? Check! Rotting corpses? Check! Making love over rotting corpses! Etc..

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colter_t — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:30:43 -0000

Awesome article

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J. Wojcik — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:17:26 -0000

I use yahoo sitebuilder, which is notoriously buggy, because it comes with my webhosting service :x

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rasecwizzlbang — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:56:35 -0000

Couldn't have chosen better creatures myself!

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dodoman1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:23 -0000

I like shrikes.

"Can you turn into a moth?" "No, that's bull-"

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danielle — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:37:01 -0000

What program do you use? I am unfamiliar with using Flash but I hear that you can build decent webpages in it and I know youre into using that program more than other drawing ones. Photoshop I think now can make pages too and if youve never tried Indesign give it a shot someday cos its pretty similar and easy to use. By the way, every time I roll over that shrikes part, I always lolz cos I immedieatly without fail hear that very short climatic musical score cliche that they always use in cartoons like in Spongebob or Ren and Stimpy when something awful occurs, with the few notes going "Bum!....BUM!.......BUM!! .......BUUUUUUUMMM!" It just fits so well, haha.

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josiahbell — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:11:47 -0000

i like the Vlad bird, because it's pudgy appearance betrays it's personality

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J. Wojcik — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:47:56 -0000

Almost all animals reproduce in some cruel way, in many bugs it's the female that does the raping and killing too :p

Never heard of that, though! There are tons of animals they call sea lice, I'll have to figure out which it is.

Doesn't seem particularly halloween-themed, though. I didn't mean this as a list of "creepy" animals, but animals that fit into Halloween for super-specific reasons :)

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saturndjinni — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:01:02 -0000

Death's-head Moths have always been among my absolute favorite animals. Pretty as well as spooky. :)

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Amoredre — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:57:21 -0000

Hey Johnathan! I love every one of these articles, and this one is something I've been hoping for for a long time! About time Carrion beetles and moths get their due! I'd also just like to point out, the Indian Clay Pipe plant is often said to be cold and clammy to the touch, giving the nickname the Corpse Plant. And when touched, wherever you touch turns black. If picked, the whole plant turns black. Just sayin. :) Great article, I can't wait for the next one! You're one amazing dude!

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danielle — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:32:53 -0000

heyy joe! its me Penny dani's sis : ) i loved this whole article brilliant!! x D especially the butcher bird lmaoo! but u kno wat terryfying creature u missed tht is pure evil?? o.o the sea lousse...mayb u heard of it but if not... it begins with the male lousse creates his evil lair waiting for a beautiful naive female to pass by. when she does, the male wil abduct her into his lair and rape her (which after hes done throws her to the "dungen" with all his other victims) then, his children will slowly eat the females organs and when they finally hatch leave nothing but her skeleton... its soo sad... : (

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J. Wojcik — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:47:58 -0000

Lots of people have had that complaint, but I utterly cannot figure out what causes it for some people....there seems to be nothing that they have in common, and I can't mess with the code, I actually build the whole site in the only page-maker program I have access to :(

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danielle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:51:27 -0000

Wow, such fascinating choices! I am edutainified, and slightly mortified by that Shrikes killer thing. O_O You seem to have a problem with your web code, or maybe i am having issues with my laptop. It seems like u have text being cut off and overlapped completely by all your graphics and it does this on several newer pages. Maybe you should give them a lookover. If its just me baby and not you, then could you reccomend a way to fix this on my screen? Thanks.

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saucylobster — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:12:08 -0000

I think something with a name like 'Devil's coach horse beetle' could get in on the halloween action. Sauntering into homes and hissing at people, an omen said to bring instant death. Various other myths are attributed to them but I think what they do to worms is pretty halloween worthy, they open thm up and eat all but thier skin leaving an empty worm husk. Pretty epic considering the size difference.