OK, Bas -

[Mickey Richaud]

This guy trumps your tarantula collection:

SCORPIONS!

 

[Basil]

Yep! We don't have a lot of scorpions around our house. I think I've seen two the entire time I've lived here. However, a few years ago when my oldest son was taking glider lessons, he was stung by one. It had somehow gotten up into the area around the aileron on the high winged glider. As he was pushing the glider out of the hanger, the bugger dropped out from the wing and into his shirt, then stung him on the chest. Glad it didn't happen while he was flying!

 

[bugimike]

A friend of mine kept one that we found in a terrarium and fed it crickets. Fascinating creatures! What I thought was cool was how they glow under black light!!

 

[martx-5]

I spent a year in Thailand courtesy of the US Army, and the big menu item over there at the time wasn't scorpions, but Mangda... They were huge bugs that the Thais really savored. We used to catch them at night, and them sell them to the locals. A bagful would fetch about loi baht...about $5. I've eaten them in kao-pot mangda, which is basically fried rice with the bugs all chopped up in there. We had a local national that ran our generators at the communications center that used to catch them at night and cook them on the exhaust manifold!

 

[Mickey Richaud]

When we were in Oaxaca a few years ago, we sampled some of these

Quite tasty, especially with a bottle of Tecate! :thumbsup:

 

[DrEntropy]

I spent a year in Thailand courtesy of the US Army, and the big menu item over there at the time wasn't scorpions, but Mangda... They were huge bugs that the Thais really savored. We used to catch them at night, and them sell them to the locals. A bagful would fetch about loi baht...about $5. I've eaten them in kao-pot mangda, which is basically fried rice with the bugs all chopped up in there. We had a local national that ran our generators at the communications center that used to catch them at night and cook them on the exhaust manifold!

Art... Warin?!?!?