Creeptych

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Bugs creep people out.

There’s something about all those legs, and those weird eyes, devoid of pupils.  There’s something about their multitude that unnerves us, and with good reason—they own this earth.  Spray deadly poison on them and hundreds might die…but you know they’ll be back in force eventually. It’s estimated that at any one time, there are 10 quintillion (who knew there was a number like that?) bugs creeping and flying around the earth.   There are more than 900,000 documented species and there are estimates that millions of species haven’t been categorized. They outnumber us  in the extreme–something like 200 million insects for every human.  They are the aliens among us…and below us and above us.

And the scary thing really is thinking about them in us.

Who hasn’t heard the urban legends of someone eating food contaminated with cockroach or spider eggs and subsequently having a horde of the critters hatching in the gums—or even the whole body—and eating the victim from the inside out? The urban legends often feature the victims going to the doctor because they’re in pain and their gums are inexplicably bleeding…and the doc does a quick exploratory and says “oh, you’ve got roach eggs hatching in the warm gum pockets around your teeth. The bleeding is the baby roaches digging their way out.”

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