Creepy crawlies on the menu?
- Laura Moore: Housebroken
- August 20, 2024
- 410
Oh, give me a home where roaches don’t roam,
Where termites and ants never play,
where late at night, when I turn on the light,
nothing runs and scurries away.
All I want is a home bugs leave all alone, that spiders avoid like the plague, where flies prefer to fly in our yards and never rush in when we open our doors, and only our pets walk around on four legs.
This past week we have finally had some much-needed rain, and lots of it. But a result of all that rain is an influx of creepy crawlies along with flies and other little flying insects getting into our house. It seems these insects do not like being rained on, so they decided to invade our nice, dry house. Oh yuck! Our houses and the majority of humans do not want to share living spaces with bugs.
Cockroaches are one of Mother Nature’s most successful creatures and certainly won't be put on any endangered species list soon. In fact, I think I read somewhere that these creatures are thought to be able to survive a nuclear bomb blast.
What hope have we humans of keeping our homes totally bug-free? We can kill a few of the bugs some of the time but never all of the bugs all of the time.
I have read about some folks actually cooking and eating various kinds of bugs. They are fried until crispy and then eaten and enjoyed. That is not happening in this house. But if that idea appeals to you, by all means, eat all you like.
If crispy, fried bugs become a popular food item, perhaps bugs will learn to avoid our
houses.