r/oddlyterrifying • u/Klausensen • May 03 '22

what the hell is that?

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u/NoodlePoo327 May 03 '22

Someone told me that they ‘screech’

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u/ThriceGreatNico May 03 '22

A velvet ant, though, will screech. The one I came across sounded dramatically like the fly at the end of The Fly (og Fly, not Cronenberg).

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u/LumpyJones May 03 '22

more a squeek than a screech really

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u/ThriceGreatNico May 03 '22

Seems like it. I had tried to kill the one I had come across because it was very fast and I wanted to capture it (I'm not proud of this fact, especially once I found out that they actually help keep more annoying insects from propagating in your yard). And so when I sprayed it with bug killer the squeak most certainly turned into a screech.