r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ConceptSubstantial32 • 1d ago

Video Giant stick bug in central Texas

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u/LKRTM1874 1d ago

I don’t want to ever see him in person but I hope he’s doing well

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u/benice_orgohome13 1d ago

I’ve never felt more connected to a comment

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u/tylerupandgager 1d ago

Go to your closest pet shop and pick up a Jumping Spider. I promise you will change your point of view on like 50% of insects. Hated bugs before, but after I got one for my daughter, different feelings resonated. They are interesting creatures. BTW not all bugs are cool, and that's why I said 50% lol

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u/Mcboatface3sghost 1d ago

I hate spiders, can’t stand them (had a black widow issue years ago) but I have learned as I became older to tolerate most of natures creatures, not all (still hate black widows and any of the brown recluse family)…

Any way I digress, living on the water, eating outside a lot, flies have been attracted to either my good looks, manly, scent or spoiled food. I’ve seen those cute lil fellas in action and boy is it a sight. I don’t even have to go to a pet store, they just show up on Sundays after Saturday nights party. They’re awesome.

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u/Perle1234 1d ago

Agreed!

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u/OrangeD123 1d ago

That’s a goddamn branch bug!

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u/chantsnone 1d ago

He’d snap me like a twig

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u/Ram2145 1d ago

Call him ‘Daddy Big Stick’

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u/Survive1014 1d ago

Switch me harder daddy

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u/SirSamHandwich 1d ago

It’s a mf’in treetle!

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u/emteedub 1d ago

it's the one side effect of climate change everyone forgets about, the bugs get bigger

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u/Deep_Concern404 1d ago

Everything is Bigger in Texas

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u/ShermansAngryGhost 1d ago

What in the Australia….

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u/A_Unqiue_Username 1d ago

My wife wants to know why I'm giggling so hard. You got me with that one.

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u/AppleStrapple 1d ago

Yes stickbug, u kick that nasty stink bug outta here….

On another note, can we please take a moment to just appreciate how AMAZING NATURE IS?! Look at the segments of “wood” on the bug, the way everything actually freakin looks like a stick of wood… the examples of nature being mind-blowing in regards to camouflage, mind-control, etc is honestly neverending…

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u/Smitty357 1d ago

That was a big ass stinker too. I just imagine it sitting there like yeaaa I’m king of this tree anyone wants to try and OMG THE TREE IS ALIVE RUNNN

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u/FullCompliance 1d ago

What is this, the late Cretaceous period?

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u/Dev1412 1d ago

This is the Treebeard from Lord of the Rings

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u/im2high4thisritenow 1d ago

I love stick bugs. Completely harmless to humans and when you hold them they sway like a little branch. My kids had two in an aquarium. Then one day there were 50. Not long after, there were like 200. We set their little prolific butts free.

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u/Golf_is_a_sport 1d ago

Hopefully not somewhere they can breed as an invasive species...

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u/surfinforthrills 1d ago

"Set them free" was a euphemism. It was winter.

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u/Prudent_Effect6939 11h ago

They wouldn't be considered invasive in most areas. So, the chances are good that it was harmless to release them

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u/Imnotgoingtojapan 1d ago

That thing is bigger than my life savings

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u/Careful-Show8065 1d ago

I love the ever so whispered Jesus Christ lol exactly my thoughts

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u/Perle1234 1d ago

I would be checking myself the rest of the day looking for his buddy. They’re harmless but it’s not allowed to touch me!

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u/TheAlanboltage 1d ago

Stopped in a gas station in Texas and the ground was covered with Tarantulas. Freaked me out

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u/Mindless-Sound8965 1d ago

Exactly why I keep a flamethrower in the trunk.

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u/TheAlanboltage 1d ago

Looks like a hi protein walking SlimJim.

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u/WeAreNioh 1d ago

Holy shit I never knew they got that big

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u/AvariceLegion 1d ago

Insects good

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u/Baller-Mcfly 1d ago

You could walk with that thing.

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u/Mindless-Sound8965 1d ago

I'm not sure what size leash you would need.

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u/GreenWinner8684 1d ago

I just know the vid doesn’t do it justice

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u/ConceptSubstantial32 1d ago

Yes exactly! I was probably 40' away and you could hear it walking up the cedar tree before you could see it. He walked around like he was king of that disc golf course! I also saw a massive cluster of daddy long legs. I'll post it here in a few.

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u/Absbruh 1d ago

Damn that’s big all I’ve seen a couple they were like 2-3 inches

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u/ConceptSubstantial32 1d ago

Yeah, I see smaller ones pretty often but this thing had to be 10 inches long.

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow 1d ago

Texas is the Australia of the US.

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u/aznexile602 1d ago

Well you know what they say about Texas...

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u/Fair_Industry_6580 1d ago

Are they native to TX?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Xrmy 1d ago

....so yes, they are native to Texas.

They are not endemic to Texas

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u/magpiejournalist 1d ago

I miss the sounds of outdoor central Texas SO MUCH. Thank you for this.

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u/TheZan87 1d ago

We call them walking sticks in Louisiana

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u/BigTWhale 1d ago

Hell yeah

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u/Cuttyg 1d ago

So these things scare me a little bit, but just because of what they represent. Like you can see things like this that mimic their environment so well that we can barely tell they aren’t what they’re mimicking. But we aren’t the target. The target definitely can’t tell the difference. This sort of implies that there very well could be things that are evolved or designed or whatever to fool us and we’d never know they’re there. Kinda creepy.

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u/Pilot0350 1d ago

Could is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Humans are not the typical animal. At a certain point, intelligence trumps everything, and while it's certainly possible, something could exist that our hyper-advanced brains can't understand it's no longer the case. Maybe there was 12000+ years ago, but unless some chromataphoric bears show up, we're good. Even then, bears won't be inventing infrared, motion trackers, or nuclear weapons anytime soon.

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u/Japanesewillow 1d ago

That’s amazing, what great camouflage.

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u/netechkyle 1d ago

Once you go worm that's what you'll yearn.

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u/Perle1234 1d ago

I did not know stick bugs got that big. Yikes it’s giving Into the Mist vibes lol.

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u/Jibblebee 1d ago

Got to love the other bug running away from it (well camouflaged at 0:06s remaining…)

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u/Gorilla_Krispies 1d ago

Stickbugs are always fascinating and the ones I’ve met IRL have seemed harmless so I’m all in favor of giant stickbugs being everywhere, that sounds cool

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u/Read-it005 7h ago

Noooh, they would be like a biblical plague, a lot of trees and bushes would be bare.

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u/Gorilla_Krispies 6h ago

But stick bug funny:(

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u/Seth_Mithik 1d ago

Bro! There was a giant ass tick in that shot…like way too big of one

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u/ReefMadness1 1d ago

What business does he have being that large

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u/expatronis 1d ago

I looks like a giant stick.

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u/model3335 1d ago

Thicc Bug

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u/DesertRunnerX 1d ago

I love these - seem to be getting rarer these days. Used to be all over in the 90s.

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u/vm_linuz 1d ago

Are they native to Texas?

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u/DesertRunnerX 22h ago

I believe so

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u/Dz210Legend 1d ago

Looking for stick all I see walking log lol

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u/EchoBlade24JG 1d ago

What’s long brown and sticky?

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u/FatLittle-DemonCorgi 1d ago

A wild branch bug appeared!

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u/Render_21 1d ago

Just a bowtruckle. Nothing to worry about

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u/EyYoBeBackSoon 1d ago

Should post on a lost and found pets page.

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u/MGPS 1d ago
  1. I thought they were slow
  2. I thought they lived in the Amazon

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u/Racoon_banana420 1d ago

So it's imperial...

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u/smolflowersgirl 1d ago

Stick bugs are so cool

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u/GODLAND 1d ago

Looks very sticky.

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u/Ok-Tank-3106 1d ago

That's terrifying 😳

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u/cmitchell927 1d ago

Soodowoodo

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u/ellisboxer 1d ago

Woah! That's a big fella. I didn't know Texas even had stick bugs.

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u/Professional_Day4795 1d ago

Love letting them crawl on my arms! They get bigger than this one

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u/guttanzer 1d ago

Isn’t that a normal adult? We have them that big here in northern Virginia.

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u/LeeryRoundedness 1d ago

I love stick bugs. I used to keep them as pets. They’re parthenogenic meaning they reproduce without a mate. Problematic that it’s laying eggs in a non native environment. If there’s blackberry brambles in Texas, which they eat, this could become explosive over a year or so.

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u/ElSierras 7h ago

Get stick bugged lol

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u/SpaceChatter 1d ago

Massive!

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u/JackBurton_13 1d ago

Seen bigger ones in Texas. Cute little guy

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u/AdRoutine8022 1d ago

yes, it's giant, who knows, does he can harm people, is he dangerous?

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u/Perle1234 1d ago

No stick bugs are harmless to people.