Curiosity

"Curiosity Killed the Cat". Maybe not today, but curiosity has struck again; and made me paranoid and itchy.

Let's start from the beginning. As I was rifling down behind the back of my desk & bookshelf, looking for some cards, a horrible little silver thing darted past me and wriggled under the skirting board. "UGH!" I thought, "A silverfish!". 

Silverfish are little insects that are harmless and like damp places. - we get them a lot in the spring/summer cause we live 'next to' a river.* Now, bugs and insects and such don't tend to bother me much; the bugs round here are all pretty harmless, so I'm not 'scared' of them really. [except for earwigs & centipedes - I don't care how small they are but they have great big pointy fangs!!!! (also, when we were kids, the boys at my school decied it would be hilarious to spread a rumour that earwigs are called that cause when you go to sleep at night they climb into your ear and all the way up to your brain... which, tbh, even though that's not true, they mustve got that name somehow, and it's still possible for them to go in your ear just a little bit which is just horrifying!!)]

But nonetheless, silverfish still creep me out, cause theyre so fast and wriggly and look like they could crawl into your ear...

So, in a bit of stupid curiosity, I decided it'd be fun to google them! I found them on a site called 'whats that bug'[.com], and I now vow never to google a bug EVER again. Because not only did I search earwigs, but I also (out of curiosity) looked at centipedes...

Centipedes.... I can't stand centipedes... One of the reasons I can't stand them is because, like I said earlier, they have great big pointy things, but also, I'm terrified of their overseas brother.... the MUKADE.

The mukade... *shudder*

They live in Japan (and so I'm guessing most of S.E. Asia).

They live in tatami.

They're attracted to carbon dioxide.

They live in pairs.

They live for up to 7 years.

They can grow to be anywhere up to a foot long.

They have giant poisonous fangs.

They can kill a grown man with sed gaint poisonous fangs.

So as you can see, they're pretty damn scary! I've never seen one, and I've haven't been to S.E. Asia (yet), but what I really want to do after 6th form and uni is go to Japan on the JET programme. I'm not gonna let these (horrible) insects stop me from going, but it is something I worry about... Which is thus, why I hate centipedes.

So, unless you want to end up like me, a paranoid and itchy bag of paranoia and itchyness, then don't google any type of bug. Ever.

And for your troubles, here's a picture & video about the mukade...

 

Answers on a postcard as to what the hell this guy is doing with that on his hand!! ...The loon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

^ watch it... if you dare.

Apparently some of the ways to get rid of these monstrocities is to...

a) use a hell of a lot of chemicals

b) pick it up with chopsticks and fling it out the window.

c) bundle it up in a bed sheet and throw it in the washing machine...

So that's it for now... enjoy :)

*I say 'next to' cause it's more like we're about to fall into the river, more than sit happily beside it.