Noca wrote:
Fern wrote:
Why yes, I can recognize a lot of insects by their smell, the sound they make, or some even by the texture of a slice of their cuticle.
Before anybody asks, yes, I am an entomologist, yes, I am female, and no, I don't find bugs creepy.
The kind of annoying sounds I hate are motorcycles revving their engines for no good reason, car alarms, police & fire sirens, hearing someone else clip their nails, and listening to people talk on their phones.
Just a question, how do you feel about centipedes? Are you totally chill around those too? Those things freak me out the most, they are just so gross.
In our play/rec room my daughter is currently housing:
several 4-5" millipedes (non-venomous...unlike centipedes)
9 tiny millipedes (wants to see if they grow into the bigger ones)
a possible bioluminescent millipede
two 10gal aquariums each with a different type of wood louse community
four pepper cockroaches.
She's loved bugs & gastropods since she was maybe three. The idea of keeping them to love and study began when we visited a local science center with her school. After the presentation we were looking at the cockroaches in an enclosure on the side of the room & the presenter overheard my daughter say, "awwwwww" when she saw them. Said presenter asked if she wanted to hold them and the two of them had a private lesson in cockroach anatomy & symbiosis with a particular mite. That woman doesn't know it but she may have changed a little girl's life.
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07 Oct 2015, 9:03 pm
