insects galore

Our school had a “2-days special” post-grad presentations from the vector parasite control unit.

The title premises promised to be exciting, and yet exciting the presenters were not. maybe I’m just tired and couldn’t focus. Maybe they were plain dull.

However, I did absorb a thing or two from the slides. I learn that …

-termite colonies can destroy building structures.
-cockroaches eat other cockroaches’ vomit, shit and carcass…eww….
-Malaysia has its share of bed bug infestations in 5 star hotels. It was gross to see pics of the bugs fattened with human blood. Yech...
-virgin bed bugs (male&female) lives longer than their sexually active counterparts…a case of “I-can’t-die-till-I-mate”, I guess….
-ants can carry things 20 times their body weight. And some ants look pretty on screen.

oh look!! there goes a cockroach…dos cucarachas, tres cucarachas…zzzZZzzz…