My 3 1/2 year old and what we found out he likes this weekend.....

We went to Citizen Bank Park on 7/3 to watch the Mets play the Phillies and earlier in the day we went to the Insectorium nearby.They have dead bugs on thesecond floor and live bugs on the third floor.Well I have 2 boys 1 almost 12 who doesnt like bugs and a 3 1/2 yr old who I found out loves bugs. He held aHissing Cockroach several times and even a walking stick.Well check out the pics below and see the smile on his face in the second 1.<br><br>Not so Bad..........<br><br><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Striderxl/Family/EricWalkingStick1.jpg" alt="image"><p><br></p>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Striderxl/Family/EricWalkingStick2.jpg" alt="image"><p><br></p>

brave boy! I would be screaming like a little girl! <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif">

LOL Thats Awsome!

I only smile like that after I smash em!<br>Most bugs and spiders that is. I'd let a praying mantis or walking stick live.<br>He is a brave little boy.<br>Tim

<font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">The walking stick wouldn't bother me at all. I've held them before BUT....hissing Cockroach?! NOWAY!! My oldest daughter held one once. You couldn't pay me enough money to hold something that ugly.</span> <img style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/sick.gif" alt="image"><img style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/sick.gif" alt="image"><img style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/sick.gif" alt="image"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Do you have a pic of Eric holding thehissing Cockroach?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">~Karen</span></font><br>

Nice Pic. Kids are so funny. Here's my daughter...she loves frogs &amp; insects<br><br><img src="http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/calcustom/CALIFORNIA/untitled.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/calcustom/CALIFORNIA/kal.jpg" alt="image">

my 3 lb. Chihuahua was sucking and chewing on a grasshopper like that last summer! gross.....

Bugs! Good for your son; bugs are just as important to the general mechanisms of life as squids, people and dogs. But, I find great satisfaction in killing anybrown widow or black widow that crosses my path and do so as needed (was bit by one as a kid, so I'm biased). I like spiders, though, and they keep excessinsects in check, or, in the case of my tarantula, El Borracho, the mouse population:<br><img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e148/aranjaloca/97578ead.jpg" alt="image">

<blockquote> <strong class="quote-title">aranjaloca1 wrote:</strong> <hr> Bugs! Good for your son; bugs are just as important to the general mechanisms of life as squids, people and dogs. But, I find great satisfaction in killing any brown widow or black widow that crosses my path and do so as needed (was bit by one as a kid, so I'm biased). I like spiders, though, and they keep excess insects in check, or, in the case of my tarantula, El Borracho, the mouse population: <br><img alt="image" src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e148/aranjaloca/97578ead.jpg"></blockquote>I was told that if you fins a black widow egg sack always squish it as it could be water proof and flushing it just wont do it. Also never keepthem as pets as the babies are to small for almost any cage and may escape.<br><br>

I've heard similar things about the sac. To ensure a solid kill, I do so with a can of carburetor cleaner and a match (but, when I find them, they'reonly outside. If anybody every gets them inside, have that house sprayed, as a bite can do you harm).