http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EFO0ccULTAs/S7T5F_q9BWI/AAAAAAAAAF4/6fH_XdvrAXg/s1600/housecentipede.jpgSeriously, centipedes should not exist. I think they're an aberration. A proof of a twisted universe. Especially that one. It looks like a mixture between ant, roach, centipede and God's malevolence.
Well, the good thing about venturing through pictures and videos of horrible bugs is that it gives me a whole new perspective on the bugs I have a chance of encountering here. I can sleep a bit easier knowing that critters like that would likely die quickly in this climate.
Here's a bug story that is kind of endearing. Almost. Well, at least it's not creepy.
I was dozing in my backyard. My napping kept being interrupted by a sound that was high pitched, yet resonant. My half-sleep made the sound kind of psychedelic and amplified it. When I woke up, I kept hearing the same noise, just not quite as booming. I turned my head and it was a cricket, chirping about 15 cm from my head. I never knew how big of a sound they can make until I saw one so close.
Bonus.
You know what I didn't want to know of existing? Angry frogs. And carnivorous frogs. There is just something really disturbing about the idea of a frog being ravenous.
I used to find screaming frogs disturbing (especially when I encountered one IRL), but having desensitized myself through videos of them I'm not quite as creeped out by them as I used to be. But aggressive frogs that aren't cartoony, anthromorphic and don't have the ability to exaggerate their limbs while attacking space rats? I haven't quite gotten used to them yet.
Angry FrogFrog vs mouse 1080p HDJust imagine it. You're locked in a tiny cell with hundreds of frogs. They'll get hungry and there's lots of them. At first, they'll eat each other. But eventually, they start leaping at you. You wake up when they nibble on you with their teethless mouths.
If I had to choose what would consume my body, I think I'd rather be eaten by humans than by critters I thought of funny and cute as a kid. I mean, what's the first thing that you associate with frogs? Ribbiting? Sitting still and looking funny, maybe snatching a fly with its tongue? A smiling, jolly figure singing and dancing while wearing a top hat? Frogger? I doubt "screaming and eating flesh" are common initial thoughts about frogs.