Wednesday, July 25, 2007

We have Moths...

While upon initial comparison to the cockroaches and termites in Hawaii, moths seem benign and even -dare I say- welcome, I have recently learned that moths hatch IN your food.
This sole factoid concerning the moth life cycle makes them oh so much worse than the termites- who only come inside one hour a night during the month of May, to die- or cockroaches -who hide and try avoiding you all together.
Knowing that the great majority of you will disagree, I must point out that cockroaches have been proven to be trainable and of high intelligence, while nothing ruins a post-early morning jog bowl-o-crunchy goodness than instead of biting into a crunchy-nugget thingy you get a squishy-larval thingy. Blagh!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

aaurg! They like nuts! keep them away from your nuts!

heh heh. That sounded funny...

Anonymous said...

Yeah. Meal moths. Nasty.

We had those one time here in Seattle. The worst part is the larval stage. You know all those holes in the cabinets for adjustable shelving? To a moth, those are the perfect place for a larvae to grow up. One memorable evening, I spent a whole lot of time with a bbq skewer, a screw driver, and a headlamp digging larva out of those holes.

Ugh. It makes me twitch just thinking about it.