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A photograph purportedly showing something called a Georgia Speekle is frequently included in articles about the biggest or most frightening bugs in the world, such as Scariest Insects Ever or Giant Monster Insects: This photograph is often included along with the claim that this cylinder-shaped monster was found in a garage in the U.S. state of Georgia: This photograph is real and shows a real animal. However, it does not show something called a Georgia Speekle (which does not exist), nor was it found in someone's garage in Georgia, either the country or the state. The image is actually taken from a 2014 video, in which a biologist was shown preparing a display specimen of a giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) that was found at a depth of 3,000 feet in the Gulf of Mexico: We searched the web sites of the Amateur Entomologists' Society, the Bug Guide, and the Department of Entomology at Penn State University, and, sadly, found no record of any insect named the Georgia Speekle.
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