Cockroaches. No better introduction and no better bug to dislike. The bugs that supposedly would survive a nuclear explosion engender little affection or even empathy from me. They fly, they scurry and they take forever to turn up their toes and die – I wonder is there any good reason for them at all? There [...]
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The rest of the bugs
Posted in Bugs and Beasties on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spiders and flies…
Posted in Bugs and Beasties on April 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I know an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly……. Whilst I don’t mind ants I really dislike flies. Living in Australia for years heightened this dislike as I suspect that there wherefore there than anywhere else in the world I have livid. In fact in India, Malaysia [...]
Ants and more ants
Posted in Bugs and Beasties on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ants are probably the least offensive of the creepy crawly family… that is unless they are fire ants (in Texas) or bull ants (in Australia) which have pretty nasty bites. We certainly had ants in our garden when I was a kid but nothing prepared me for the 27 billion I would encounter in my [...]
Bed Bugs….
Posted in Bugs and Beasties on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Realizing that we had a bed bug problem was one of my less memorable expat moments. I had noticed the small discolorations on our bedsheets but had not long moved to Asia so I thought it was some kind of dampness problem due to the humidity. That was my first mistake. My second mistake was [...]
Mosquitoes
Posted in Bugs and Beasties on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is completely amazing just how many webpages there are about mosquito ‘facts’. Eating bananas repel mosquitoes, bats eat 600 per day, fabric softeners repel them… As always I check my sources of information, but this one was a doozy! I had Malaria whilst I was in India – the ‘flu’-like symptoms were exactly that [...]
Bugs and Beasties
Posted in Bugs and Beasties on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well I have been looking forward to this topic for ages! One thing I love about new locations is finding out what kind of weird, evil, fascinating, rare and exotic bugs and beasties they have. Some of them – well OK a lot – have left me a little cold I must admit. But you [...]
