Cockroach in ear

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me too,I am coming to India January 1st and shouldnt have read this thread being a pathetic woman you will all say, but I would just die if I had a bug of any description in my ear.

gautam

Talking about cockroaches, i hate the ones that fly. The other day i saw i cockroach sitting quietly in a corner. So without disturbing him i tried to pick up something lying nearby. That fellow spread its wings like a dragon & i was out of there )

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Flying cockroaches?! - Yaiks!
You sure it wasn't a cricket? In Taiwan, there were hordes of BIG crickets sitting up in the trees, and the chirp they made...!

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happysnapper999

In varanasi they have flying cockroaches the size of ping pong balls! If you sit by the ghats at night you can hear them coming... hmmm is that an Enfield... Bang! they hit the deck and scuttle about.

Good thing about that though is unless you're an elephant there's no chance of one of them crawling in your ear!

gautam

Flying cockroaches for sure. Had a few close encounters, they took me by surprise everytime

Proof : http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=1&sa=N&tab=wi
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ploink

Eww... Why did I even ask...
I live in a world that has flying AND ear-dwelling cockroaches! Eep.

Nick-H

That's what made the cow look so shocked!

Ploink is starting up with a new version of the

There was an old woman who swollowe a fly...

song!

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Nick-H

The lizard thing is partly bad science, partly superstition, partly old wives tail.

Many believe that if it falls in your food while it is cooking you will die after eating that food. Although Lizard may not have been supposed to be on the menu, especially for vegetarians, it is not true (I have read) that it is poison.

By extrapolation into superstition, it becomes enough if the poor creature even looks at the food.

Even though she doesn't believe this, Mrs N still doesn't like them, so it gets into the culture, I guess.

That's the take in this part of the world, at least.

The indoor lizards with triangular heads, by the way, are Geckos.

What really upsets me is when they get into the insect trap and get fried. Poor things.

happysnapper999

[quote=Nick-H;373623]The lizard thing is partly bad science, partly superstition, partly old wives tale.

Many believe that if it falls in your food while it is cooking you will die after eating that food.


We were eating a meal in Ella in Sri Lanka when my girlfriend pulled a cockroach (a small one but still too big to fit in an ear ) out of her lunch. We're both veggies, but she's a game girl and having removed it, just finished her meal.

Gardener972

I'm a woman that loves lizzards. Whenever I see them in the yard I grab my camera and if they're in the house, I leave them because they're doing their job of eating insects. They're actually kinda cute!!

Nick-H

a game girl? Shouldn't she have been pulling pheasant or grouse out of her meal, then?



People make a lot of fuss about Cockroaches and India, but I've seen several in London restaurants, and understand that some of those 'problem' tower blocks were infested with them. Bit small er than the Indian ones, though.

By the way... According to the recent and (unfortunately) accepted twisting of our language by marketing types (read those two words, please, with a tone of utter disdain ) shouldn't it be In-Ear Cockroaches?

happysnapper999

Perish the thought!!

I grew up in the Mediterranean and cockroaches are everywhere... and yes, they are just the right size to crawl in an ear. Thankfully it never happened!

amyl

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I remember well my Mom had got one chalk - Laxman Rekha! I think it is effective. Cockroaches for sure.....Lizz/Geckos too I think! Just draw lines around the probable areas they pass/come from. It must be safe/non-poisonous for humans but take care while using it.

all garden-lizards ..yes.. But not most of the wall-lizards an Indian house-wife often comes across. More than scared, I think they are like.....ewwwww....yuck.....it looks disgusting with those protruding eyes, fleshy look, ugliest color shade.

I remember those funny stories we used to hear as kids. That poison thing was also in one of the old-hindi movies....scene - Mother-in-law poisoning her dot-in-law by dropping a gecko in her porridge while its being prepared on the burner....

Nick, I must say you have got a real grasp of Indian superstition system.

Another funny school-time-story about geckos-females.....if by any chance you touch a lizard the female is not to be touched. o yeah.....now as I am typing I think that was just a reason they used to give to keep them selves 'touch-free' during their periods . During that time span if some kid is about to touch the female she wud say....do not touch me....I have been touched by a lizard....o man! What crazy ways to hide a fact!

About cockroaches.... I think they have survived thru zillions of years...thru the ice-age, climatic changes and the like only to scare the s***t out of women. A friend of mine can handle cobras but just freaks out like in hell at even the sight of a cockroach. And if its a flying one....... NUTS!

I have been wondering for long about cockroaches/mozzies. I really do not see them fitting anywhere in the ecosystem. May be I lack some school-level-knowledge.

BTW I have not been lucky to allow a cockroach/insect into my ear but yes I have been successful in smelling a vegetable-seed so hard that it went right up my right nostril and got stuck. I still remember how Mom, cousin and I went on a Rajdoot that night to a doctor in the neighboring city. Dad was out of station so saved some beating for being so inquisitive about seed smells. . In the hands of the doc, a small 'spoon' thing did the trick...it was a bloody seed when it came out on the table

You mean like mine? She still does narrate the seed-story.

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amyl

I like to lift big cockroaches with their those 'tentacles' or something. But they break easily. And if it's a flying one, very easily coz it flutters like hell.

And I had never realized or imagined in my wildest thoughts that a cockroach's blood would be white...till I got a chance in my secondary school to pin one unfortunate on a wax slab and dissect . Whoa! White! I said.

About sleep-ear-insects .... a friend was bitten on his pinna by a rat . Guess it was peevish not finding such a small hole and tried to make it bigger. Oh! Good that I can only imagine his agony.

But I admit am scared to sh***t while sleeping if I happen to see a centipede around. I cannot stand the thot of it entering my ear and and digging deep into my void. Very Scary!

Drews60

When I was a little kid we lived in Miami, Florida. We had palmetto bugs, flying cockroaches. You could hit them hard with a shoe and they'd just shake it off and fly away. At night I could hear the evil suckers wings beating the air, hovering around my bedroom. I slept with my head under the sheets! Now, coming to India, I get to relive the nightmare! Yikes!!