Sunday, February 12, 2012
Prompt #3.1: My Nemesis. The Camelback Cricket.
According to Wikipedia (and they would know!): The camelback cricket has been known to eat it's own extremities in times of extreme starvation. Their legs and antennae grow extra big and long for just this purpose (also to help them see in the dark, but I'm going to focus on the "voluntary self cannibalism" thing).
So basically, I have chosen as my nemesis a bug that will willingly eat itself to survive, and has evolved in such a way to make that EASIER.
I'm screwed.
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I feel you. Although my nemesis, the brown marmorated stinkbug, does not regenerate itself, it's just as insidious. I even have an app on my ipod, the goal of which is simply to blow up stinkbugs ;-)
ReplyDeleteHysterical! I have no idea what they look like...but, I've learned something about them, nonetheless!
ReplyDelete:) Thank Linda. I'm glad we can laugh about these horrid creatures. Knowledge is power.
ReplyDeleteMel, I was hosting a party at my house of Friday, and I noticed a stinkbug hanging from the blinds LESS THAN TWO FEET away from where everyone was standing. I yelled "STINKBUG. STINKBUG. STINKBUG." and generally gesticulated for someone to get the damn thing out of my house. Everybody looked at me funny and kept on drinking their beer.