Author Topic: Odd bug, kind of pretty. (Read 3271 times)

Jonna · « **on:** September 09, 2009, 10:14:06 AM »

This is the second one of these that I've seen in the yard but the first time I've seen one in the pond. The colors are amazing, his back looks like it is made of turquoise.

Anyone know what it is?

Julles · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2009, 10:15:41 AM »

He IS amazing! Maybe we can smuggle some of those up here to the U.S.A.

Joyce · « **Reply #2 on:** September 09, 2009, 10:52:17 AM »

It's some sort of stink bug.

mondotomhead · « **Reply #3 on:** September 09, 2009, 11:16:24 AM »

I agree with Joyce...a stink bug. They are like skunks. Won't do anything to you unless you aggravate them and then watch out. These bugs really do smell bad. I learned as a kid not to mess with them

Joyce · « **Reply #4 on:** September 09, 2009, 11:41:35 AM »

Don't do what I did...pick raspberries and accidentally eat one.
I think I dry-heaved for an hour.

mondotomhead · « **Reply #5 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:32:05 PM »

Oh Joyce! You made me laugh right out loud in the office.............

HOWELL · « **Reply #6 on:** September 09, 2009, 04:38:39 PM »

Ewww I hate those bugs...they smell bad...
Hahaha I can not believe you ate one Joyce...

Joyce · « **Reply #7 on:** September 09, 2009, 05:30:39 PM »

Didn't really eat him, but he was in my mouth momentarily....but long enough to stink it up....

reddad35 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 09, 2009, 06:15:17 PM »

Lol Great addvice Joyce. I laughed aloud and I mean loud. Too funny.

jw · « **Reply #9 on:** September 09, 2009, 06:32:19 PM »

Hey you guys in Mexico I found this out about stink bugs:

In Mexico Stink Bugs are eaten both live and cooked (for instance in a pate or salsa) since their pungent odor gives a dish an aromatic flavor

. So at your next partay you can serve this lovely delicacy

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HOWELL · « **Reply #10 on:** September 09, 2009, 07:01:15 PM »

Did someone say gourmet.........?

I do not wanna have that at my next partay...it will be funny though...

Jonna · « **Reply #11 on:** September 09, 2009, 09:43:49 PM »

What??? Yuck! That's one delicacy that I've missed. I wonder where in the country they eat them? I hope not around here. They do eat some stuff I wouldn't eat in different parts of the country but mainly in Oaxaca. They love their fried grasshoppers over there. Bleh! I've seen them in mounds at the markets and watched people happily stuffing them into their mouths from paper bags, not this camper. They are also the ones who eat the worms in the Mescal and some other larvae stuff.

I'm a big food wimp. I won't eat anything that is looking at me (still has its head and eyes), anything that could climb an aquarium wall (like an oyster), any spare parts of mammals (only muscle meat thank you no liver, stomach or other spare parts), any insect AT ALL, and since my years of diving there are fewer and fewer sea creatures that I'll eat. I had to give up lobster after watching one too many of them bounce off rock walls like the cockroaches that they are. I am careful never to look too closely at shrimp when diving because I do still like to eat them.

Aquaphy · « **Reply #12 on:** September 09, 2009, 11:11:21 PM »

I'd try it. I actually have the opposite perspective as Jonna. Because I love lobster, I figure there may well be some insects worth eating being as they are arthropods too. The other day I was trying to find information on Asellus aquaticus which is something like an aquatic wood louse and I came across a picture of its deep sea cousin Bathynomeus giganteus. Do a google image search for it and you'll either be disgusted or think as I did "I bet that tastes like lobster

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HOWELL · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2009, 08:27:21 AM »

I'm so with you, Jonna..I do not eat shrimp that much but still eat it sometimes though...
Still can not believe some people eat grasshoppers and worms and some other stuff in the south of mexico, I preffer burritos and tacos...good thing is I live north...

Jonna · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2009, 08:47:45 AM »

Oh yeah, Aquaphy, it's definitely related to lobster. Scavenges dead stuff off the bottom and cleans up debris. I was reading wiki and it seems they first found them off this peninsula in the deep part of the Gulf somewhere. I'm sure they would be on the menu if there were enough of them. Apparently they eat them in Taiwan.

Yuck. No bugs for me.

jw · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2009, 08:59:52 AM »

I love all seafood and we used to go crabbing all the time and bring back lots of it to cook and dip in melted butter. When we lived in Forks we used to go smelting at the ocean using nets on a pole. You just eat them guts and all. I do not eat the bugs tho...................to gucky looking for me

. My DH and I sometimes watch those shows where those guys travel and eat everything the natives eat and sometimes it is so disgusting I have to look away

Aquaphy, I love lobster also but have you ever ate the bugs of any kind? If so which ones and what do they taste like? If not let me know when you do :DI. Guess if I were out somewhere lost in the woods I may have to consider it of course but for now I'll stick to the normal stuff. That Bathynomeus giganteus sure sounds good tho

.

Here is where they supposedly eat the lovely stink bugs:

Stink Bug Salsa: Every year, people living near Taxco, Mexico, catch stink bugs to make a special treat. First, the bugs are toasted to get rid of their stinky smell. Next they're ground up and put into salsa, a spicy sauce. (The stink bugs taste like sesame seeds.) Then the people grab their tostados (corn chips), spread them with salsa, and chow down.

People in Mexico sometimes use the eggs of water bugs in making tamales and tortillas. And sometimes they make them into little cakes.

Julieta Ramos-Elorduy is a scientist who studies the different ways that people in Mexico find, fix, and eat insects. She also likes to make up recipes using insects, like the pizza and spaghetti dish. Doesn't the spaghetti look suspicious, er, delicious? Those little brown things in the middle are mealworms (beetle larvae).

Kittyzee · « **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:30:44 AM »

That's a pretty stink bug, the ones around here look like that but are a bright green or brown. The intense color would be a tip off on the intense smell too I'll bet!

I've still got goose bumps thinking about Joyce's stink bug treat.....

And like jw, I love all seafood and don't care what it looks like or what it's been doing all it's life.

Esther · « **Reply #17 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:55:32 AM »

Yup, the ones around here don't have the turqoise color either.

Jonna · « **Reply #18 on:** September 10, 2009, 07:55:42 PM »

Luckily, Taxco is a long ways from here. It's up in the highlands, a town famous for its silver work, jewelry and other stuff. I've been there but missed the stink bug salsa.

The only stink bugs I've known are from California and they are solid black and have a different shape, their butts are higher than their front if you know what I mean. They walk like a raccoon. So, this one did not look at all familiar to me. If I see another one, I'll poke it a bit and see if it stinks up the place

jw · « **Reply #19 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:33:22 PM »

Jonna you better be careful

HOWELL · « **Reply #20 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:54:42 PM »

eww those things make me sick...they look ugly and no yummi...no sir
I've never been to taxco, I hate towns that look like small towns, I get so stressed about their small rocky roads...my mom loves it though..

jw · « **Reply #21 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:18:35 PM »

Hey Jonna there is a show on KCTS 9 right now about your city Mirada, Mexico and all the things they eat and they show the markets where they sell the pumpkin paste and the plant called Hennaca for rope making? Nice looking very pretty place

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Aquaphy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:21:47 PM »

The stinkbugs here are all black. I wouldn't think to eat one, but if there is a method to prepare them that makes them taste like sesame seeds, I would give it a try.

jw, I ate a lot of grasshoppers when I was preschool age living in MO. My dad showed me which ones were good eating and how to prepare them- remove the abdomens, discard the rest and eat them raw. I remember thinking they tasted like pumpkin seeds, which I like a lot so I would catch them and eat them when ever I saw them. I spent a couple years there as a kid and I haven't eaten any since because I'm not sure of the edibility of the ones we have here in OR which are different.

I was fortunate enough to attend the 07 IWGS meeting in Bangkok where I ate as much local food as I could. I didn't happen on anything too strange in the way of food, but I did have to get used to the way they often serve shrimp cooked whole in dishes. After realizing all the parts have the same great taste I became comfortable with eating them that way.

Jonna · « **Reply #23 on:** September 11, 2009, 09:52:46 AM »

Howell, you hate those towns because you are not a SHOPPER!!!! I love them! Taxco is a silver jewelry dream, plus it is a beautiful mountain town with cobblestone streets and lots of hills. It is so full of silver made into so many different things I think the whole town would shine if you put a light on it.

JW, that's cool that you could see some of Merida. It is a beautiful city, the old buildings and the indigenous markets and the color and music and food - all are wonderful. I love it here.

HOWELL · « **Reply #24 on:** September 11, 2009, 12:00:51 PM »

Yeah, not that much into jewerly here.

I'm a shopper too, well I just do not like to go to small towns and go shopping I'd rather to go to a mall instead of a town or mercado. They are just too crowded for me..My mom and my dad travel to taxco and guadalaja and some of those south mexican places to go shopping too..

jw · « **Reply #25 on:** September 11, 2009, 02:49:56 PM »

Aquaphy I think I will just let my cats catch the grasshoppers and eat them thank you very much..............interesting that they would taste like pumpkin seeds

.
Jonna I was looking for you in the market places but I guess you were busy soaking your feet in the pond with the fishies

. Very good show

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Howell you need to keep up on the latest bling, bling for your next girl friend and they always like the kind of stuff that no one else has ya know

.

HOWELL · « **Reply #26 on:** September 11, 2009, 04:14:05 PM »

Jw..I have not told you that I have talked to my friend already the girl that has being childish, and kinda..I do not know, but the thing is as soon as I got to practice this last monday, she jumped on me and hugged me and said that she's missed me more than ever..

.
The thing is we are now somehow still friends...

jw · « **Reply #27 on:** September 11, 2009, 04:57:30 PM »

Well Howell you can never have too many friends but now you are aware of how young girls can act sometimes.....................especially from a males point of view

. I hope she will not hurt your feelings again but be prepared

HOWELL · « **Reply #28 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:39:29 PM »

Yeah, I am still keeping my distance from her, and I did not want to be rude at all so I let her hug me..

BTW my parents were eating shrimps a little bit ago..but I am eating corn cream soup, I made myself..yum..no shrimps here, unless they were rolled up in a sushi...

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