bugs

In keeping with this blogger’s enjoyment of finding and sharing good stuff, I’m going to do a review of something that I came across lately.  And so far I’m mighty impressed with it.

I don’t know where they came from, maybe on some vegetation that I got from the grocery store, but this summer has been absolutely wretched from gnats and fruit flies.  They’ve been getting all over the house, and I’ve had to swat them away from my computer screen Lord only knows how often.  Just a real nuisance.

So I was watching television a few weeks ago and caught some commercials for the Zevo flying insect trap.  According to the ads it uses ultraviolet and infrared light to draw in bugs and making them fall prey to the adhesive cartridge within.  You just slap a cartridge into the unit and plug it into a wall outlet, in ...

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Renfield had the right idea at least: if you’re gonna eat bugs, give it some variety!

Edward Archbold, age 32, is dead after eating “dozens of roaches and worms” in a pet store’s contest in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

From the article at The Smoking Gun…

Investigators reported that Archbold “wasn’t feeling well and began to regurgitate” shortly after the contest’s conclusion. “He had consumed dozens of roaches and worms,” a sheriff’s spokesman noted.

Archbold was pronounced dead after being transported to an area hospital. An autopsy was conducted, and the Broward County medical examiner is awaiting test results to determined Archbold’s cause of death.

The roach eating contest was part of the reptile store’s October 5 “Midnight Madness” sale. Contestants had four minutes to devour the most discoid roaches, which can grow up to three inches long. “Oh yeah, any vomiting is an automatic DQ,” the store cautioned in

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