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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo I squished a flying insect and now my fingers stink.
I thought it was a mosquito coming up in my peripheral so I turned and grabbed it and smashed my fingers together. When I looked in my open palm I found a green benign green creature which appeared intact, but stunned. Not a mosquito at all. So I dropped it to the side and hope for the best, but my fingers smell like moth balls.
Anyone have any idea what it could have been?
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)How do you get they're legs apart to smell them?
noamnety
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Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)...it was the rare Death of 10000 Tears Beetle. They secrete a toxin when touched that painfully destroys every cell in your body very very slowly.
You should probably make sure you have your affairs in order.
By the way, when I say very slowly, I mean over the course of 5 centuries. Kiss your immortality goodbye.
mockmonkey
(2,817 posts)The Lacewing
Maybe it was a Moth and you squished it's Moth balls?
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)Good catch!
I assume that if I have that much of a smell on my fingers that I probably killed the poor little guy?
mockmonkey
(2,817 posts)Never to mess with them.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Never seen one of those. We get the big size mosquitoes here in Korea and when you pop one of those it's like watching a horror movie on TV. Damn vampires!
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Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)I wasn't raised in these here parts and that kind of stink bug never made it to my end of the woods.
mockmonkey
(2,817 posts)so others of his ilk could live on.
You've learned to never do that again.
(not unless you've developed some weird fetish)