Comments on: Prehistory in my basement http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14104 Josh Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:22:04 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14104 I can’t believe that you’ve only ever seen one in your life. I’m in my mid teens and i’ve seen more than I can count (including one in our hotel room this past month). I didn’t realize that they were scavengers, but I guess I’m not really surprised. Sounds like you had a close one Libby, I’d rather not have one of those squirming around in my throat.

]]> By: Libby Strizzi http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14059 Libby Strizzi Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:08:18 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14059 “squicked” — that’s a crazy word, Mary DeV. Kate, you’re so lucky to have only met one earwig in your life. Must be city living. Here in New Castle, more out in the country, we are liable to have them anywhere. One year, there was an infestation. They hid under my picnic table & benches, among other places. If you banged the bench, a mess of them would fall to the ground. My worst earwig story is the time I was about to sip water thru a straw — but luckily I looked at the straw and it appeared dark in one spot. Suspicious, I tapped the straw on the countyer and out came an earwig !! Can you imagine . . .

]]> By: Mary DeV http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14057 Mary DeV Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:05:25 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14057 Ha ha, I remember that Night Gallery ep — scared the bejeebers out of me! I’m pretty squicked out by anything penetrating an ear anyway (shudder!) so that was guaranteed to “bug” me! A while later, though, I was peeling some ears of corn for my Grandma to cook, and I found a little worm — known as a corn-borer or a corn ear-worm! But Grandma called it an “earwig!” I was actually relieved — since it seemed that earwigs ate ears of CORN, not HUMAN ears!

Of course, I got a little older and learned that Grandma gave it the wrong name, and real “earwigs” were the bug in the photo — and got squicked out all over again ;-)

]]> By: Diane http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14052 Diane Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:51:36 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14052 What is it about insects that can bring so many of us to our knees? Earwigs make me want to scream and run in the other direction. Spiders are even worse. I am not afraid of many other things either!

]]> By: Kate St. John http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14051 Kate St. John Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:52:12 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14051 Fortunately it was totally false!

]]> By: Tim Vechter http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14050 Tim Vechter Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:12:36 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14050 the story, considered one of the classics of Night Gallery, titled “The Caterpillar”, aired March 1 1972, the second season of Night Gallery.

]]> By: Tim Vechter http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/07/27/prehistory-in-my-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-14049 Tim Vechter Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:55:34 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=38936#comment-14049 there was an episode of Rod Serling’s night gallery in the early 1970s about an earwig eating away in a man’s brain and laying eggs. pretty scary stuff were it to be true.

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