Can you name the creepy... crawly... BUGS!?

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The word 'bug' here is used in its colloquial sense and not a true taxonomic sense. Many of these are not taxonomically 'true bugs.'
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Creepy...Crawly...BUGS! Quiz

by Hejman

Created Feb 18, 2011 in Science
Featured Mar 29, 2012
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	Hejman:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 04:10 GMT		24 points
	Please, do not whack your computer monitor with a rolled up newspaper while taking this quiz.

	ecco:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 04:28 GMT		7 points
	this was one of the hardest quizzes I have ever taken; I kept shivering every few seconds.

	MasterNachosII:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 04:29 GMT		19 points
	[Puts on nerd glasses] Well, technically, most of these aren't 'bugs.'

	MasterPenguin:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 04:31 GMT		7 points
	Kill them! Kill them all with fire!

	WeaselKing1000:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 05:08 GMT		6 points
	Should accept 'woolly bear (caterpillar)' with two 'l's. Or even just 'caterpillar'.

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	JDGrut:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 05:25 GMT		10 points
	Sorry @Kororaa, "Bug" is a scientific term referring to hemiptera, which is an order of insects. It certainly doesn't include scorpions!

	sactoshc:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 05:34 GMT		5 points
	I was just bugged I didn't know the Japanese beetle. Sneaky critter.

	markyb:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 06:18 GMT		7 points
	I don't think that's a picture of a house fly. The metallic body makes me think it's a green or blue bottle fly. The house flies I'm familiar with have gray and black stripes along the top of their thorax. And the top left insect is a Ladybird Beetle. Lady bug is it's common and less accurate name.

	Rachelkachel:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 06:48 GMT		3 points
	These are gorgeous photos, which completely negated the creepiness factor for most of them. Most. Not the dung beetle or the cockroach.

	Dirk:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 07:27 GMT		2 points
	I thought the lacewing fly was a damselfly and the katydid was an aphid.

	dje:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 08:07 GMT		4 points
	really disappointed not to see fruit flies on here. hours in biology labs in university has made this a very familiar bug to probably a whole lot of people. i was so ready to type in "drosophila melanogaster" too!! :-)

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	mrmanheim:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 10:48 GMT		2 points
	I typed "lightening bug" multiple times thinking I spelled it wrong, before choosing "firefly" -- must be a Pennsylvania thing, but thats what the kids called them in the other states that I lived in. Good quiz

	geofan5723:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 11:49 GMT		7 points
	This quiz bugs me.

	jacana:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 12:12 GMT		5 points
	you should accept pond skater for water strider and Cockchafer or Maybug for Japanese Beetle, those are the British names anyway...

	climber_v12:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 12:24 GMT		13 points
	@mrmanheim: You did spell it wrong. It's 'Lightning', not 'Lightening'. I tried Lightning Bug myself to find out if it would work, and it did. @Hejman: I really like this quiz. I was expecting it to be loaded with hair-raisingly creepy bugs, but for me, they look brilliant and colourful. Execept the dung beetle and scorpion, but they don't creep me out either.

	Pogues:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 12:42 GMT		5 points
	I can't believe how many of these bugs I actually got. Maybe it's because I kinda like them. But if anyone ever comes up with the idea to do a movie that involves a giant Southern Yellowjacket, I'm staying far away. That picture kept freaking me out...imagine a 50 foot one.

	pgrossma:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 12:58 GMT		-1 points
	can you accept 'Japanese water beetle' as well. That's what I have always heard them called.

	nnneeennn:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 13:21 GMT		3 points
	lightning bug works, if you spell it right..

	Blackbelt737:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 13:50 GMT		2 points
	Surprised scorpion made the quiz and no spiders did, especially since scorpions are more closely related to spiders and horseshoe crabs than than other organisms most people consider 'bugs'

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	sub:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 13:59 GMT		11 points
	Why is "bee" not accepted?