The monster

Posted by Soph (Enghien, Belgium) on 12 August 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

Here is the monster I promessed yesterday... to go out from that "lovely-romanticly-wonderfully" atmosphere.

I don't know what's the word in English... But in French, the name is "punaise", and the translation in English would be "pushpin". Those bugs are not lovers at all: A kind of them have sex by making holes with a lot of violence in the female's back, and drop their sperm by there. Scary! I'm so glad that I'm not a pushpin.

Well... Sometimes, men do it almost like that too :-/

Have a great Sunday!

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Comments (9)

Hrg from tehran, Iran

what a scary insect, by the way good macro shot its looking at you be careful !! :)

12 Aug 2007 4:22am

@Hrg: Thank you! When I see ugly bugs like that, I think that butterflies would be uglier if they hadden' their wonderful wings...

stijn from brugge, Belgium

thats a monster allright :p

12 Aug 2007 4:32am

@stijn: yes hein! Tomorrow, another one!

Lorraine from Canada

Allo Soph, En anglais c'est "bedbug" . Il y a une expression en anglais (probablement pour effrayer les petits:) qui dit "Don't let the bedbugs" bite....Quel petit monstre, cette punaise LOL

12 Aug 2007 4:53am

@Lorraine: Merci Lorraine! The name is even more scary in English!

MaryB from Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Another amazing macro Soph!
I'm sooo pleased I'm not a bug! I would hate to run into this one :)

12 Aug 2007 5:18am

@MaryB: lol Mary! I prefered bugs when I didn't see them from so close!

Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan

Amazing macro, cool looking guy, hehe, never seen one like that before, have a great weekend, =)

12 Aug 2007 6:08am

@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: Thank you! Cool looking guy? wow!

Wolfgang Prigge from Granby, Canada

Très beau et en même temps epeurant.

12 Aug 2007 7:30am

@Wolfgang Prigge: Merci! C'est vrai que je préfère qu'il ne fasse qu'1 cm de long, s'il était plus gros, je n'aurais pas osé le photographier brrr

Markus from Reading, United Kingdom

Scary! Nice macro, hope you haven't experienced that sort of action from a man.

12 Aug 2007 10:13am

@Markus: I didn't... pfiouuuu!

tyan from Singapore

oh dear,really scary man!he looks like Star Wars character,Sith?That red faced guy with black marks on his face?gives me the creeps,this monster here..;p

12 Aug 2007 11:19am

@tyan: It made me think about Star wars too!