….if you like things that creep, crawl, crunch and fly. Bugs can be pests, predators or both. Here are some interesting factoids about all those little creepy things we love to hate!
- 75% of all living things on the planet are insects and there are more ants than anything else in the world. (All future picnics are doomed.)
- Scorpions glow when exposed to black light because of phosphorus in skeletons. (They are already creepy enough; do we really need to put them under a black light?)
- Field mice eat black widow spiders. (Ugh.)
- Brown Recluse spiders don’t live in CA, most bites are misdiagnosed. (Great, now I have to worry about other things?)
- No species of scorpion in US is poisonous. Their bite just feels like a bee sting. (The creep-me-out factor is much worse.)
- There has never been any proven case that Bed Bugs transmit any diseases. (That doesn’t make them any more cuddly.)
- No species of tarantula in southwest United States is harmful. (Fine, but I still don’t want to hold one.)
- Palmetto bug is just a fancy name for a cockroach. (Call them whatever you want, but they’re still disgusting.)
- Unlike ticks, chiggers do not feed off blood. Instead, a chigger will insert a “straw” to use for feeding from its host. Its saliva will actually liquefy our skin cells which provides it food. (Oh, they’re just liquifying my skin cells. Whew, what a relief to know they’re not sucking my blood.)
Well, I could just go on and on, but I think we’ve all heard enough, haven’t we?!
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