Potato Bugs
What do you think a potato bug looks like?
Like this?
Or like this?
My personal belief was that the former is a roly poly and the latter a potato bug, but then I heard that some people think potato bugs are what I thought were roly polies. Actually we are all wrong. The first picture is a woodlouse and the second is a Jerusalem cricket (which are fucking disgusting creatures, by the way). Well, now you know.
October 2nd, 2006 at 8:24 pm
That ain’t no cricket! It’s an alien in larva form, wanting to suck out your brains!
October 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 am
The one time I came across one of those buggers in person was when you lived in that perched-on-the-side-of-a-hill apartment in Napa and I was out on the side of the building, apparently playing and digging in the dirt. Amongst my excavations was a big, greasy Jerusalem cricket, and the image of its seemingly slimy ass is still perfectly burnt into my memory, perhaps because that was the only time, out of all of those I spent digging, climbing, and rolling around in wholesome muck, that I ever came across something that repulsed me. Ugh, they’re SO gross.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Potato bugs are isopods (I remember my sister Janice studying this stuff). Were you aware that they come in the BIGASS MUTHAFUCKA variety? Observe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod
October 5th, 2006 at 3:35 am
That is horrifying.