it actually means the Napa Co, CA in AUSTRALIA.
I don't really see many waterbugs in Melbourne. We do have them in Australia, and apparently the Sydneysiders grow up to 7 cm long. I've still always thought of them as an American thing.
Oh, in South-East Asia some of them can reach 12 cm long. That's one impressive waterbug.
Arachnophobia was less horrifying and more funny than I expected, too.
twitches violently
I was taken to that movie on a first date. There was no second date.
[link]
(Jilli warning? Well that just takes all the fun out of it)
i'm gonna give myself nightmares: [link]
(again: eight legs are involved. ten if you include the victims)
Oh, good grief, why do I have this irrestible urge to click on these damn
bug links?
I'm gonna need a drink to wash that last picture out of my mind before bedtime. nnnnnggghh
Bugs should not be large enough to look me in the eye. I met a giant praying mantis once at a gas station in Kentucky. The thing was easily as long as my forearm, sitting there on the gas pump,
looking
at me.
HELL NO I AM NOT CLICKING ANY OF THOSE LINKS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Pete warned me about something on the BBC site the other day, something about "spider labs". It sounds like a nifty article, and nifty science. Not gonna go read it.
I have major squick due to three years working in kitchens in the South. When I was in training, we came back from Christmas leave and opened up the cooking classroom and flicked on the lights and thousands of baby roaches went scurrying under the stove.
I had one of those moments when I lived in a duplex with roommates and opened the clothes dryer one day to see scores of tiny roaches come spilling out of the rubber door seal. That's the only time I recall being conscious of my sanity lurching - luckily I opted for regular bug bombing with as much pesticide as I thought the cats could stand rather than the General Sherman approach, but it could have gone either way.
What is up with you folks?! Now I am going to be seeing all manner of icky bugs in my dreams.
I did not need to know that there are giant frog eating bugs nearby. Denial is my friend.
Juliebird, I fitted a lightweight cat door ($5+shipping, iirc) into the screen of the window that I had been leaving open for the cats to go in and out of, and it has cut down quite a bit on the indoor bug population, even though I still leave the back door wide open most of the time.