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Earwigs

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I didn't know what an Earwig was, so I was picturing a poofy white wig from the 1700s designed specifically to cover and hang from a human ear.
 
Scarpozzi said:
The article I read stated that not all earwigs have wings...so it may be a trait for only certain varieties.
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But having wings is one of the defining characteristics of earwigs. In fact, they might be named for their wings.

Entomologists suggest that the origin of the name is a reference to the appearance of the hindwings, which are unique and distinctive among insects, and resemble a human ear when unfolded.
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Long time ago I lived in a basement apartment. I had to shake out my bed every morning..literally hundreds of them when I woke up. They don't bother me much. Probably because I was all cracked out for a year straight...good times lol
 
Mayne said:
Long time ago I lived in a basement apartment. I had to shake out my bed every morning..literally hundreds of them when I woke up. They don't bother me much. Probably because I was all cracked out for a year straight...good times lol
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I swear you are the ATOT version of the Filthy Critic.

Here's something recent he wrote during his Finding Dory review:

http://www.filthycritic.com/index.php/old-reviews/comedy/item/645-finding-dory

Parents forget that kids are the most resilient things on earth. They can handle a shitload more failure than adults. Look at me. Sure, I’m an unemployed drunk in a basement apartment, a drain on society and a waste of food stamps. I guarantee you, though, that the morning my sisters found me unconscious on the bathroom floor with all their lipstick eaten and Lilt perm chemicals drunk that nobody expected me to be able to someday make an outdated, unattractive web site. ALL BY MYSELF!!!
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Remind you of anyone?
 
About a month ago I had a swarm (as it's called) of flying ants in my kitchen. Weirdest damned thing. I got up at about 3AM, went to get a glass of water, and the kitchen was covered in flying ants. On the cupboards, the walls, the counters, the sink, the floor. I proceeded to take a wet rag and wipe them all up. Took about 30 minutes, and they kept coming. No sooner would I wipe down the floor, rinse the ants down the drain, turn around and there would be five or ten more. I didn't see any flying and didn't see them crawling out from anywhere. Eventually they stopped coming.

So I did some research. I guess flying ants are just a type ("alates") that are produced at certain times (usually after a rain) by most ant colonies, and are the ones that breed. What I read indicated that I probably had a big ant hill nearby and I expected to get these swarms daily/nightly until the hill was wiped out. But I never found a hill and I never had one single ant in the house after that night.

But these damned earwigs...
 
Carson Dyle said:
About a month ago I had a swarm (as it's called) of flying ants in my kitchen. Weirdest damned thing. I got up at about 3AM, went to get a glass of water, and the kitchen was covered in flying ants. On the cupboards, the walls, the counters, the sink, the floor. I proceeded to take a wet rag and wipe them all up. Took about 30 minutes, and they kept coming. No sooner would I wipe down the floor, rinse the ants down the drain, turn around and there would be five or ten more. I didn't see any flying and didn't see them crawling out from anywhere. Eventually they stopped coming.

So I did some research. I guess flying ants are just a type ("alates") that are produced at certain times (usually after a rain) by most ant colonies, and are the ones that breed. What I read indicated that I probably had a big ant hill nearby and I expected to get these swarms daily/nightly until the hill was wiped out. But I never found a hill and I never had one single ant in the house after that night.

But these damned earwigs...
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Sounds like a scene from Poltergeist.
 
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