Why do little bugs always try and fly up your nose?

Looney

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Hm i think it's just you. I don't think i've ever had a bug try to bug try to fly up my nose.
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Hardcore
Hm i think it's just you. I don't think i've ever had a bug try to bug try to fly up my nose.
I don't think they "try", I think that if they're buzzing around by your nose and you breathe, they get sucked up. :p
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Hardcore
Hm i think it's just you. I don't think i've ever had a bug try to bug try to fly up my nose.
I don't think they "try", I think that if they're buzzing around by your nose and you breathe, they get sucked up. :p

That makes sense... aren't some bugs attracted to carbon dioxide?
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Hardcore
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Hardcore
Hm i think it's just you. I don't think i've ever had a bug try to bug try to fly up my nose.
I don't think they "try", I think that if they're buzzing around by your nose and you breathe, they get sucked up. :p

That makes sense... aren't some bugs attracted to carbon dioxide?
Yep.. was my line of thought, too.
 

StrangerGuy

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Yes, mosquitos get attracted to carbon dioxide produced by our body. But I don't think they want to fly into your nose to suck blood. :)
 

biostud

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Originally posted by: Hardcore
Originally posted by: biostud666
Bugs like moisty gooey places

Hm i don't know about you, but my nose isn't a moisty gooey place.

.....try putting a finger up your nose, you might find something moisty and gooey stuff in there :p
 

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When I was really young I lived in the most roach infested apartments ever. One day, I felt something weird in my ear. I dug into it, and came out with half an adult roach :( I completly freaked out, and it was a while before my mom went in with a q-tip to get the other half. I think it was a year until I could go to sleep without a pillow covering my head so they wouldn't try again.

BTW, we also had a small spider infestation. The corners of the ceiling was COVERED in webs, but I stopped my parents from tearing them down. I thought spiders were really cool, and they ate the roaches :) I remember feeding one before by tossing a roach I caught into its web. Really freeging cool.

-Chu
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Chu
When I was really young I lived in the most roach infested apartments ever. One day, I felt something weird in my ear. I dug into it, and came out with half an adult roach :( I completly freaked out, and it was a while before my mom went in with a q-tip to get the other half. I think it was a year until I could go to sleep without a pillow covering my head so they wouldn't try again.

BTW, we also had a small spider infestation. The corners of the ceiling was COVERED in webs, but I stopped my parents from tearing them down. I thought spiders were really cool, and they ate the roaches :) I remember feeding one before by tossing a roach I caught into its web. Really freeging cool.

-Chu
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