Icky!

More on waterbugs vs. cockroaches. According to my bug books "waterbugs" and Palmetto bugs are all in reality the American Cockroach, who lives in the disgustingly humid south. I' d previously thought they didn't fly much around here. Ha. Ha ha ha. Apparently I don't look up at the streetlamps much at night, otherwise I would have seen the horrible things hurling themselves head-first into the bulbs and ricocheting off into the dark, just so they could put their nasty little bug feet all over me when I had my back turned.

Since they don't have those where I come from I'd been thinking they were just excessively clumsy moths, and yes, on particularly humid nights you can hear them flapping past and then clunk! right into a lamp. My only other excuse is that I can't see for shit at night. I can't drive in it, so don't expect me to correctly identify disgusting flying things.

The little teeny, regular-sized guys are German Cockroaches and everybody gots 'em. Awwwwww. Aren't they cute? Bleeeh.

But I think waterbugs get way bigger than 2". I've seen some that should be on a leash for crap's sake.

But just to prove that I really do like crawly things, here's some bug porn.