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As God is my witness, I didn't know earwigs could fly. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

I could have been much happier not knowing this.

New fear.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly what I thought. Thanks for the new fear, brotha! I hated these guys growing up. Think I still do. They were always around a pool changing area, and that set a fear in me for life I believe.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't see these until I was 10 or so, when we moved further south. They were equal parts cool and horrifying, but they made my mother uncomfortable. So she would call the kids out to mash them if she saw one. Became a regular service. We even drew up a logo for it at one point - a kind of cartoonish earwig with the no symbol around it.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That is actually why they are called earwigs, its an old english word that’s describing the shape of their wings which kind of looks like a human ear.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    So you’re telling me it’s NOT because they like to crawl into your ears while you’re asleep?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If you want to lose the solace that fact has provided you, here's another possibly also false but no less comforting bit of trivia:

    spoilerLeeches after feeding would love nothing more than a dark, somewhat moist, somewhat warm, somewhat tight environment. Which a human has and is probably something you don't want a leech to get anywhere near, be glad there's no such thing as a Analwig. Oh and land leeches exist.

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