love potion number nine
so when Nichole & Daniel were in Florida for their WDW vacation back in May, they had the pleasant experience of being introduced to love bugs. Nichole kept cracking me up, because she was completely repulsed by the fact that mating bugs would land on her, essentially using her as their mattress.
today, i read something that, to me, makes love bugs so much less icky.
apparently when a mosquito bites us, it's for a very specific purpose. see... they don't feed on blood. they actually rely primarily on plant sugars for their energy. when they -- and it's only the females, in case you didn't know -- decide to nibble on us, it's because they use our blood as their fertility drug. it fuels their reproduction.
they say you learn something new every day. this is something i could have lived with remaining ignorant. i think it disturbs me more to be a bug aphrodisiac than a mattress...
6 with their own thoughts:
It's as though male mosquitos know better....
*sigh*
Its also true that spiders will lay eggs in your ear while sleeping, but they may be so tiny that the vibration from your eardrum and ear-bones destroys it soon. Another fun fact!
You have such a way with words...a mattress....ugh!
And, my cousin's little girl did have a spider in her ear! For real!
ok first dan's comment scares the hell out of me! secondly LMAO at both your and nichole's comments about the mattress vs the aphrdisiac. i can't wait to tell jason the info so he knows that when he is bitten it means some lucky mosquito is going to get action b/c of him!
They're both gross. mattress, bug equivalent of oysters... gross. what does it mean if i always get more mosquito bites than anyone around me?
Aaaargh! I like bugs as long as they are not in my space using me for anything! But thanks for the tidbits I can pass on to others who get even more freaked out by bugs than I do!
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