Moths...Aaaahhhhggg, SICK!

I remember being a kid, and being fascinated by flying insects. The pretty ones, you know...like butterflies, or dragonflies...
But the ones I absolutely HATED (and I am not entirely sure why) were moths. They just seemed like a cheap imitation...like they were trying desperately to be butterflies, and failed miserably.

Apparently, there was a multitude of others in the world who despised these nasty creatures, and thus came into existence Moth balls! What a great idea...the only problem with them is that it repels everybody (it makes my eyes water just thinking about them...), kinda like garlic is supposed to repel vampires, but the truth is really that the smell is repugnant to everybody on the planet..except me. I really like garlic. In fact, as a newly wed, my poor husband had to endure a dinner I made where I added about a cup of garlic-salt to the main dish. It just smelled so good cooking that I didn't think it would hurt the poor ground beef. But, back to the moths...

(sheesh...it looks like a grasshopper

that taped old newspaper to it's back..yuck *shuddering*)

In the monsoon season one year in New Mexico, we had a huge influx of moths, and I actually wrote a story about it, that was particularly funny, about how I kept smacking them and they would miraculously just keep getting up, and eventually having to throw them all in the toilet, which seemed to work for a while, but they kept reappearing...

Moths are know for doing horrible things, like being gross, impersonating flying wads of used toilet paper, and eating holes in clothes. I personally have never experienced the latter, but I have heard it so it must be true, because people don't ever say things unless they are the absolute truth, right? Hence the moth balls ("yeah, HENCE!").

The reason I bring this all up is because I found a moth in my son's dresser...a BIG one. It was sitting in the drawer that my son had opened and was gnawing on his pants.

It must still be a larva because it has no wings. I don't think I can fit this one in the toilet. And it must be a new breed because it screams when it is provoked. Must be a relative of the Hissing Beetle...Screaming Moth....