I
miss summer already, and it’s still mostly summer out. Still, there’s one thing
good thing about cold weather—no bugs. I’d really rather have insects than
winter (spiders aren’t technically insects), but yeah, they do bug me.
Earlier
this summer, while we were down in Missouri, we found this on the car
windshield:
It’s
a grasshopper, possibly mutated by radioactivity or fracking, because it’s
bigger than the photo makes it appear. More the size of a Volkswagen bug. Maybe
this view, from inside the car, will give you a better idea:
It’s
monster movie giant! The bug that ate New York! Surely it got made into a 50s
black and white SF thriller!
(The
closest I could find was this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050294/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_30. That’s
The Deadly Mantis—which did indeed head down to eat New York—but instead of
hopping grass, it prayed. I recall it scaring the bug juice out of me on The
Double Creature Feature.)
On
the one hand, I’m not at all scared of grasshoppers. On the other hand, if that
thing landed on me before I saw what it was—assuming it didn’t weight me down
so much I couldn’t move—I’d have rolled my car over to one side and uprooted
the nearest tree in my eagerness to run out of my own skin.
I'm totally over summer and the threat of hurricanes. hope I DON'T HAVE TO EVACUATE WITH MY BROKEN ARM. ***WAVING FROM FLORIDA***
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate winter, I think I'd pass on living in Florida--with or without the break.
DeleteIt looks quite alien.
ReplyDeleteIt does, doesn't it?
DeleteIt's cute but I've seen bigger. The palmetto bugs are the scariest.
ReplyDeleteOh, I think this one's big enough for me!
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ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Mark. I'd choose bugs over winter any day!
ReplyDeleteIf the cold is bad for bugs, it's bad for me!
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