Post by Linaeve on Jul 11, 2007 12:41:35 GMT -5
Ughhh. There are few things that I despise more than moths, and junebugs happen to be one of them.
Yesterday I was in the kitchen making PB+J sandwiches for the kids for lunch when my scalp started to itch. I just ignored it and kept going, but a little while later it started to feel like I had something crawling through my hair. I figured it was just my imagination, but I turned to Jaela and asked her if there was anything in my hair. She stepped forward and squinted slightly, then went, "Uhm..." and her eyes got all big.
I would've exclaimed something profane had there not been five or six young people in the same room.
Instead, I decided to fall to my knees and whimper a bit and shake out my hair like a madwoman. Then I realised that if I shook the bug out it might decide to land on some other part of my body, so I called my older sister over and whimpered a bit more while she ran her fingers through my hair. I felt her long fingernails scrape up against it really close to my head, and then a huge freaking beetle fell on the kitchen floor.
I screamed like the house was falling down and pushed myself into the corner, as far from the bug as I could get with a troupe of little kids huddled around. The older sister found a flip-flop and did the stupid thing justice, and only then could I peel myself out of the corner, wash my hands a few times, and get back to making sandwiches. Needless to say, I was shaking and muttering under my breath a bit.
Haha, I'm such a wimp x3
BUT that's not the end of it. The junebugs wanted REVENGE on me for sentencing their brethren to death, and were plotting something horrid while I slipped on my swimsuit and herded the kids and their friends out to the pool. It was about five minutes before I found a massive black beetle with mandibles a full centimeter long flailing in the water. I was slightly amused when one of the kids asked if it could bite people. Well, duh, that's what those huge pinchy things are for. But as long as it was helpless and waterlogged, I wouldn't freak out over it. I pulled out the skimmer and scooped up the bug so it could go enjoy the rest of its short life.
I'm not that heartless with bugs, really I'm not.
Anyways, as I realised that the pool was riddled with little bug bodies, I turned my attention to skimming them out of the water. I scooped up a bunch, then tossed them over the edge. Of course, there were two junebugs clinging to the net for dear life, and no matter how fiercely I smacked the edge of the net up against the outer wall of the pool, the stupid things wouldn't budge. I needed to scrape them off, and I sure wasn't going to do it with my bare hands, so I grabbed a flipper and used an edge to try to pry them off.
Guess what? One of them jumped off the net and landed on my bare belly. That was too far. I screamed once more, flailing and swiping frantically at the stupid beetle that was clinging to me, and finally it gave up and fell off.
I promptly scooped it up with the net and held it underwater for the next ten minutes.
Next time I see a junebug, it will get to have a little meeting with the bottom of my shoe.
D:
Yesterday I was in the kitchen making PB+J sandwiches for the kids for lunch when my scalp started to itch. I just ignored it and kept going, but a little while later it started to feel like I had something crawling through my hair. I figured it was just my imagination, but I turned to Jaela and asked her if there was anything in my hair. She stepped forward and squinted slightly, then went, "Uhm..." and her eyes got all big.
I would've exclaimed something profane had there not been five or six young people in the same room.
Instead, I decided to fall to my knees and whimper a bit and shake out my hair like a madwoman. Then I realised that if I shook the bug out it might decide to land on some other part of my body, so I called my older sister over and whimpered a bit more while she ran her fingers through my hair. I felt her long fingernails scrape up against it really close to my head, and then a huge freaking beetle fell on the kitchen floor.
I screamed like the house was falling down and pushed myself into the corner, as far from the bug as I could get with a troupe of little kids huddled around. The older sister found a flip-flop and did the stupid thing justice, and only then could I peel myself out of the corner, wash my hands a few times, and get back to making sandwiches. Needless to say, I was shaking and muttering under my breath a bit.
Haha, I'm such a wimp x3
BUT that's not the end of it. The junebugs wanted REVENGE on me for sentencing their brethren to death, and were plotting something horrid while I slipped on my swimsuit and herded the kids and their friends out to the pool. It was about five minutes before I found a massive black beetle with mandibles a full centimeter long flailing in the water. I was slightly amused when one of the kids asked if it could bite people. Well, duh, that's what those huge pinchy things are for. But as long as it was helpless and waterlogged, I wouldn't freak out over it. I pulled out the skimmer and scooped up the bug so it could go enjoy the rest of its short life.
I'm not that heartless with bugs, really I'm not.
Anyways, as I realised that the pool was riddled with little bug bodies, I turned my attention to skimming them out of the water. I scooped up a bunch, then tossed them over the edge. Of course, there were two junebugs clinging to the net for dear life, and no matter how fiercely I smacked the edge of the net up against the outer wall of the pool, the stupid things wouldn't budge. I needed to scrape them off, and I sure wasn't going to do it with my bare hands, so I grabbed a flipper and used an edge to try to pry them off.
Guess what? One of them jumped off the net and landed on my bare belly. That was too far. I screamed once more, flailing and swiping frantically at the stupid beetle that was clinging to me, and finally it gave up and fell off.
I promptly scooped it up with the net and held it underwater for the next ten minutes.
Next time I see a junebug, it will get to have a little meeting with the bottom of my shoe.
D:
Status: Coooosplayyysss. Vair busy kthxbai.
), they stick, they cling, they dig, they swim in your pool, they buzz. -shivers- Horrid!
