Friday, August 19, 2011

100 Words: Insect Anatomy

There's a bug of some sort in the trash can beside my desk. I can hear it scritch scritching against the thin plastic liner, trying to escape.

It's been there all morning.

The sound is driving me nuts. I can't concentrate on my writing.

My overactive imagination stops me from freeing it.

It probably doesn't have two inch pincers on its mandibles. It probably doesn't excrete flesh eating acid from its thoracic spiracles. It probably isn't plotting to sting me into submission, devour my left eyeball and lay eggs in my eye socket.

Probably not.

But why take the chance?
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13 comments:

  1. I think I saw pictures of an insect like that in a National Geographic once.

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  2. Robbie, Google Image "Rhinoceros Beetle".
    Do it!!!
    Indigenous to BORNEO of all places!

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  3. Fantastic! If I ever decide to do something like Facecrook, my login is going to be Rhinoceros Beetle...although I might use the band's spelling for the bug name, just because.

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  4. Great Idea. I'll be your first friend.

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  5. We have these things round my way called “Stag Beetles.” They are huge with great big horns on them that people think are pincers. They take 7 years to get to the stage where they can fly. Oh dear... sound like an insect geek.

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  6. Everything's bigger in Texas -- no point in chancing it!

    Pearl

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  7. Dicky, I remember finding one of those stag beetles in my laundry after my ex returned from a cross-country road trip. I believe I thought it was the beginning of the Apocolypse.

    Pearl, thanks for reminding me. Texas bugs have been known to be mighty scary!

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  8. ewwww insects are the spawn of satan...especially skeeters when they whizz around your head on those hot summer nights....
    on another note you wanna come to Australia...we got bugs bigger than babies fists....nothing worse than the feel of a big bugger crawling across your skin at night...those labial palps and apical spurs brushing against you can give you the booboojeebees, not to mention the sound of a mandibles gettin ready to bite.....
    I have insect anatomy knowledge too hehe....
    good post...i follow you now

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  9. shiver...

    how vivid, I can relate to how your imaginations work. :)

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  10. Dan- I've been to Australia. Lived there for two years when I was very young in the seventies. I remember some wallabies, koalas, a goat and a bunch of hippies. I can't say I remember any skeeters, but I'm sure they are impressive. I hope to go back one day to see how it's changed.

    Shopgirl- I'm still leery of the trashcan. I sprayed a can of bugspray in there just in case...

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  11. Eeewwww... I'm sufficiently concerned... but I don't think we have mutant bugs in New England. All the same, I'm going to be very careful around the trash cans... ;)

    Nice 100, Nessa!

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  12. my brother claims that when he lived in savannah georgia there was a spider so big that he could hear it crawling up his wall. so he did what any manly man would do in that situation, he vacuumed it up in his vacuum cleaner and then threw his vacuum cleaner in the garbage.
    i love looking at bugs, but i don't want any of them crawling on me. ever. and especially not laying anything in my eye sockets. eww.

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  13. Jayne-all bugs are mutant. That's why they're so creepy. (It's good to see you back. I was missing you.)

    Indy- if your brother did that at my house, he'd be my knight in shining armor- or should I say Knight with Shiny Dustbuster!?

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