Ever caught any kind of insect?

Started by xxReshiramxx June 13th, 2015 8:32 PM
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I remember I caught a butterfly when I was like ten years old on summer vacation.
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I had to once for school, I forgot what I caught, but I remember catching like two or three different kinds of bugs, one of them being a grasshopper. I never want to do it again.

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I probably caught a few butterflies here and there when I was very young, but they're probably not that memorable. I do remember though a few years ago while in university I needed to take care a caterpillar until it turns to a butterfly for one of my assignments and it's pretty cool seeing the process in action.
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I don't catch bugs, I kill them

because I don't like bugs
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The only insects I've caught with intent to keep caged up are...dead ones. Or maybe not quite dead ones, in the case of the cicada shell that I still have closed tight inside an empty film canister. Though I do wonder where the dead moth I found (in a pool) that I kept in a baby food jar ever went off to.

Anyway, in regards to live ones, I've only caught them to see if I can, they get released right away. I've done this to butterflies, lovebugs, oh I can't even remember what else...I've picked up pillbugs before just because I can. I think it was mostly butterflies I chased after though. And this wasn't with intent to catch, but I did manage to coax a dragonfly to sit on my finger for a few moments one time. I was utterly amazed at that.

If there were fireflies where I used to live, I probably would have tried catching those too, but alas, there were none. I would do so now, I'm always tempted to whenever I see them around, but it would look just a little bit weird ah ha.

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I've captured numerous grasshoppers, spiders, ladybugs, and other weird and unidentifiable insects, not for malicious intentions, but for observational purposes and to keep them as pets.

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All kinds of beetles, grasshoppers, fireflies, ladybugs, dragonflies, those insects with big scissor-like jaws, mantis, butterflies, moths and other arthropods like spiders, centipedes, millipedes, the occasional scorpion and crabs when at the beach.

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when i was growing up, my friend's family would sometimes be so lazy about cutting their backyard weeds in the spring/summer that it'd grow wild. the place became like a utopia of long grass and plants, with at least 10 grasshoppers that jumped with every step you took in there. needless to say we would go grasshopper hunting. it was always our goal to see who could catch the "prettiest" grasshopper out of us 6 kids. one time i caught this huge red grasshopper that always eluded our capture previously, and when i caught it all of us were so ecstatic. i was deemed the one with the prettiest grasshopper, and no one was able to beat me after. :')

we kept all of our subjects in this big old fishtank and set them free later once we were done playing.

but yeh i spent my whole childhood capturing bugs of all kinds, including but not limited to: beetles, butterflies, moths, ladybugs, ants, spiders, caterpillars, etc. it was great fun. B)

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Oh man, I forgot about grasshoppers and crickets somehow! Yeah, pretty sure I chased plenty of those as well. :') The moment I saw something hop away like that I would possibly stop what I was doing and see if I could catch it just because. Easily distracted, what's that?
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I wasn't allowed to capture anything "because it's cruel". This is just as well since by now, if I did, I'd rather not have. The only time I handle insects is to move them somewhere safer, usually from whatever I'm doing. I'm not some 'friend to nature' nut, but I do like to extend common human decency beyond humans.

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being the only guy in the house I'm always the one that's gotta catch the various insects that crawl into our home, and there's plenty of them in the desert. It's usually just crickets or something but occasionally it's something real psyducked up like a scorpion or tarantula or palo verde beetle.

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I know someone who collects insects. He catches them, kills them and pierces a pin through them. He had boxes full of all different species each with a name tag next to it. He convinced me to start doing that too (killing them amateurishly in the freezer), but I found soon out it wasn't really my thing.
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no bugs are gross D: i especially hate moths.

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I caught butterflies at summer camp, and I once caught a turtle. Not an insect, but it took a lot of time and patience and I felt hella proud.

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I remember by my house in elementary there was a big field where a whole bunch of crickets lived, and about once a week a bunch of us would compete to see who could catch the most. I always lost because they'd always jump out of my jar as soon as I tried to put another one in, haha.

Other than that, I remember catching moths, caterpillars, pill bugs, ladybugs, and even an earthworm or two. And just about a week ago I managed to catch a rather large beetle, which somehow found it's way into my house. I kind of wanted to keep it, since it looked cool, but I ended up tossing it back outside since I had nowhere to put it.