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Buggin' Out: Are These Real or Fake Insect Names (Part 2)
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We’re back with some more real or fake bug names! Play along and see if you do better than Sara?
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Handling Bug Issues at Home
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The podcast where two feisty red heads with loud laughs share crazy stories, play games and spread silliness and joy.
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That little matchy-matchy woman over there that you hear is my partner in crime on the Laughing with Chinders podcast, Christina Curry. But let's be clear, not matching with you. That's true. Not matching with me, unfortunately. I mean- I know. It's really sad. What would be better? Being in person would be better. Yeah. Oh my God.
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And my co-host, that is my co-host over there, the Unmatching co-host, Sarah Alpin. And Unmatched co-host. Today, our topic today is timely because this week I have had so many issues with bugs.
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It has been bananas. First of all, yeah. First of all, three days this week, we had yellow jackets get in the house somehow. That's not good. I am now an expert at killing them. Oh my God, how did you kill them? So what you can do is take like a
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teaspoon to tablespoon depending on how much water you put in, but a spray bottle you use Dawn soap and put in like a teaspoon or a tablespoon of soap in water and then you spray it and they can't fly and they drown in it even if you're just spraying them with it. So it's the least bad way of killing them as opposed to like spraying them with something that's corrosive to your house or
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other insects around, I guess. Yeah. The first one I just like go outside. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't like killing them, but they can sting you a million times. Yeah. They're a little harmful to humans and pets.
Service Dog Assistance
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True. And Cluzo was all about trying to attack that Yellow Jack, those Yellow Jacks. He was like so, because he's trained as my service dog. So when he knows that my anxiety spikes, and I hate killing bugs so much, like he has to get involved because he goes to like calm me down and he does this thing that he's supposed to do. And it is the worst scenario because it's like way too close to a bug that could just sting him to oblivion.
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Oh, dang, Dawn has so many uses. It's kind of unreal. And yet I have never had the opportunity to use it on an oily animal. And I am disappointed that I have not been. I hope that no animals ever oily again so that I don't have the opportunity and also
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Wouldn't you just love to like help save baby ducks? Oh my god, every day.
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That is my daily wish. Be in service of little baby ducks.
Upcoming Cicada Infestation
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I mean, Bugs, look, warning, we're going to be talking about Bugs, part two. If you listen to part one, you know what you're in for.
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It's also timely because the cicada apocalypse is just like around the corner. And that's going to be an absolute nightmare for all you. I don't know, East Coast, North Carolina. I think it's going all the way up to I don't even know. Yeah, I'm acting like I don't know. It's basically the whole East Coast. It's like the majority of the East Coast, half of it probably.
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I might have to shave my head. All of the curly haired people out there, I just have so much empathy for you because they get stuck in your hair. They pee on you and they get stuck in your hair. I may straighten my hair that entire month that they're here.
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Or like wear it in a hat or something. Gross. I mean, they're going to. Anyway, that's not going to be fun. Every every year people eat them and then find out they're allergic to shellfish. What? Because they are related to shellfish and people eat them, and that is how they learn that they are allergic to shellfish by eating a skin.
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But why don't they learn that by eating shrimp, which is way more common. I don't know. There are always articles in the newspaper every year where people learn they had a shellfish allergy from eating skates. Oh my people, what's wrong with you? Eat a lobster. It's not okay. Oh, it's so backward. It makes no sense.
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I wonder if it tastes fishy. Oh, God, I don't know. What do they do, deep fry them?
Cicada Cuisine and Allergies
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I don't. Maybe. I mean, that seems like how you would probably eat a cicada. Throw it on a barbecue and smother it in sauce. Oh, God. Do you split open the shell and suck the meat out?
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Oh, my God. OK, I googled. Unlike other bugs that have crunchy exoskeletons and wings, cicadas have a nutty green, almost peeled, shrimpy look and taste and texture is similar to crustaceans. No, that's just too much for me. That's too much for me.
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How do you cook a cicada? I mean, I've had cricket and I ate a deep fried. Oh, God. Okay. I'm not oh, God, I get cricket. That's not abnormal. I mean, it's not abnormal, but it's not okay. So par boil or blanch them for about two minutes to firm them up.
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and then they're ready to cook as you like. I suggest roasting them, sauteing them in olive oil or butter with garlic, marinating them, toasting them like nuts, or dipping them in chocolate. I've had I've had crickets and chocolate too. Yeah, that seems normal too. I can't remember if I ate crickets or not when we saw them in Copenhagen. I don't remember.
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They tasted fishy to me. Well, the deep-fried cricket tasted fishy. Okay. The one I would have had would have been in chocolate, but I don't remember if I did or not.
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Not that memorable. You can't really taste it when it's in chocolate. I mean, everything in chocolate is delicious. Not cicadas. They're also huge. It would be like a big oyster is the size of a cicada. Chop it up. Stick it in the chocolate. Oh, my skin is crawling.
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Oh, man. All right. Speaking of bugs, let's get into it.
Fun with Bug Names
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I brought real and fake bugs and I hope all you listeners at home play along. You have to guess whether this is a real bug or a fake bug. OK, are you ready? Oh, let me get a piece of paper so I can keep score for once. I am going to beat you this time. Oh, tax documents. I'll use an envelope, back of an envelope.
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Did everyone file their taxes? Because it's too late if you didn't. You fucked. At least for this year. Or last year, I mean. Oh, God. Oh, God. Okay. All right. Here we go. Wakia Chewbacca bug. For some reason that sounds familiar, even though it seems like the fakest name ever.
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Because who named who would name a bug after a Star Wars character? But I'm very real because it sounds familiar. It is a real.
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So who did name it? A nerd, a nerd, a Star Wars nerd. Listen, okay, well, here's why. So this Western Mexico moth species was named after the furry Star Wars character. When the moth was discovered by the Smithsonian Institute in 2009, so pretty recently, the researchers led by David Adams described the creature as resembling Chewbacca, a very large and hairy Wookiee is what they called it.
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I know what the mom looks like now that you just... Oh, really? You do? I bet you do. I mean, it's a big one. It would get stuck in your hair. I much prefer tiny ear bugs to bigger bugs.
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All right, Sarah gives one chocolate-covered cicada. Oh, no. Oh, no. My own strategy of torture being used against me. Oh, yum, yum, yum. Oh, God. Oh, God.
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Crunchy and soft at the same time. And there's a cream filling. Or maybe it's like caramel filling. Ew, and it tastes like fish. It's not OK. Oh, God. OK. All right. Next one. Next one.
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Star Wars wasp. Fake. It's actually real. I mean that's really on the nose. I know. That's why I left it in. I was like, she's going to think this isn't real. Because it's so dumb. Not that I don't love Star Wars.
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It's just like, could you be a little more creative? Like the Darth Vader or Anakin or something wasp.
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Well, if you break it down, there's actually three species, like subspecies of the Star Wars wasp. One's named Polymystis Chewbacca. Another is Polymystis Videri, which I think is Vader, but in like a little, I don't know, Italian twist. It's Vader when he's in Italy.
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And then Pauli misses Yoda. Peter, when he's in Italy. He just pops over for some pasta, some nice Italian food. I feel like that's how he would say Italian. I mean, when I'm in Italy, I'm Christina.
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Oh, God. OK, so the renowned entomologist and a Star Wars fan, clearly Arnold Menke, gave the first two of those names in 1983. And then the third one, the Polymist's Yoda, was named by fellow entomologist Charles Vincent in the same year, which brought more attention to these bugs than other tiny and rare wasps ever get.
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I mean, in 1983, that was like the height of it all. So that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Oh my God. What good branding? Raise awareness about tiny wasps. Yeah, I know. We would have never known about that. I mean, that's all I know about them. Me too.
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Did that mean you have to have the chocolate covered cicada? Did you win the chocolate covered cicada? I'll get the chocolate covered cricket. Cricket. I'm writing it down. You get a cricket? That's bullshit. Life's not fair, Sarah.
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I know what you're getting for Christmas. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, God. All right. Anyway, here's the next one, which does sound a little Italian. So I don't know. Maybe we're heading into Italy all over again. Empedimienta.
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I'm going fake. It's fake. I can tell you how I knew because you had to psych yourself up to try to trick me. I was trying to say it in my head, like, how do I pronounce this? I saw it happening. That's what I was doing, yeah. I was like, I don't know how to say this.
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Oh, God. All right, let's see. Okay, so you have two chocolate covered cicadas. I have one chocolate covered cricket. On a roll. Bullshit.
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It is pretty gross, not going to lie. Listen, you got to eat what is given to you and they're coming for you. Do they leave shells behind and then fly off and die somewhere else? Yes. I'll send you lots of pictures because you deserve that, my friend.
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Oh, you know what? I have eaten cicada shells. My memory just pops into my head. Here's how and why. I have an allergy to something and I break out in hives and I get months and months where I'm just like hives everywhere all the time. I was so desperate one time. I think I had them for like a year straight. I went to the acupuncturist.
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Yeah, I got all kinds of the acupuncture done, and he gave me this mixture of tea to take, but it was all in whole form. It was like loose-leaf tea, quote unquote, but everything was in its original form. It wasn't ground down, because he wanted me to, I don't even know why, actually. So I open up the bag, and it's literally like bark and dirt and shelves of cicadas.
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And I brew it and I'm supposed to drink it cold. So I have to brew it and it looks like, you know, when you drink a French press and at the bottom of your cup, it's just so grainy and like, you know, thick and cloudy. That's how the whole thing looked.
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and it tasted so I can't even tell you how bad it, like I almost, when I would drink it, it was like almost, it would come up again, because it was just so gross. I don't even know if it helped me, but I drank that for like months and months and months.
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Oh, my God. So when it was finally done, I went back to him. I'm like, look, I get it. You want me to drink this? But like, it's really difficult and it's really gross. He's like, oh, I have it in pill form if you should have told me earlier. And I would say he hasn't ground up and in like put in pill form as an alternative to how like, why don't you just give that to your clients first? Oh, my God.
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So I was like throwing up some cicada shells for some delicious cold tea. That is horrifying. Yeah, it was really gross. I just paused in my head because I was like, oh, wait, they leave shells behind. And then I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. I used to drink the shells. God. I know. I know. All right. Next bug. OK. All right. Is this a real or fake bug? Hurts Lucanacha.
00:19:44
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I'm going to go with fake. It's actually real. Oh my god. What? It's like Lucio Libre. Hurts looking at ya. Yeah, basically looking at ya. Okay.
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Oh my God. Entomologist might be the funniest people ever. I know. I kind of want to be friends with them, to be honest. I have a friend that's an entomologist, but I don't remember him being funny. I mean, if you're going to name a bug, you should just be fun about it, right? Yeah. I don't know.
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Okay, so a hertz is a genus of parasitic moth found in Mexico. Hertztouia was described by Paul Marsh in 1993, and he's the same scientist who named the species Hertz-looking-at-cha. So far, there's no species named Hertz-Johnny.
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But that should be next. Paul Marsh has a sense of humor and I'm digging it. Oh, my God, that's amazing. Yep, yep, yep. So one chocolate covered cricket for Mwah. Crunch, crunch, crunch. All right, we have let's see three. My grossing out. Yes.
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Would you rather I saute your cicada in like a butter lemon sauce and toss it in some pasta? Is that easier to take on the palette? I'll share my cicadas with you, Christina. Come on over for dinner. All right. Should we take a break? I have five left. Oh, yes. Let's do it. Is your pet having a rough time, right, Meow?
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with Jinger's. You know what you're here for. Let's get back into it. Maybe I should serve your cicada with a little chill pods dripped on it.
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Oh, man. Oh, they just I feel like they're so squishy and soft in the middle. If it was like, let's say we took the cicada and decreased its size by like, I don't know, a quarter of how big it is, could you eat it then? No. All right. All right. Good to know. Also, I don't know if you leave the wings on. I have that question, too.
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It did not say in my cursory Google. I feel like you can pluck the wings and deep fry them up and then they're like a crispy salad topping. Oh, God. You know, I add that crunch flavor. Oh, God, texture is important.
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Oh my God. Yeah, especially in the salad. You need a crunchy bite. Oh man. All right. Is this a real bug or a fake bug? Going back to Italy. Scarabello beetle. Fake. It is fake. It's actually the name of a scooter, an Italian manufacturer scooter.
00:24:15
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That doesn't necessarily preclude it from also being a bug as we have now learned. All right. One chocolate covered cicada for Sarah. I know this is the game you don't want to win. And here we are. Here we are.
00:24:41
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All right, okay. Something a little more appetizing sounding? Scorpion fly. Maybe not so appetizing. Real. It is real. All right. Ding, ding. Oh my God. Four chocolate covered cicadas. Oh God. It's like a whole meal. You're so full now.
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The scorpion fly is a strange-looking insect that is found in gardens and hedgerows and along woodland edges, particularly among stinging nettles and brambles. It has a long beak-like projection from its head that it uses to feed. It scavenges on dead insects and frequently steals the contents of spider webs.
00:25:32
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Yeah, it definitely needs a beak like thing because singing medals really are fierce. Yeah, they're the worst plant. Yeah, I.
00:25:46
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So I love the taste of like nettles. When I was in Nepal, they made a nettle soup, but it was really labor intensive to make because you're having to like separate the leaves and the pricklies and it like pokes you a ton and it hurts. And so you can't really get nettles anywhere at the store. I've always wanted to like recreate that soup and it's super good for you, like a lot of health benefits.
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So if anyone knows where I can buy some stinging nettles to make some soup, let me know. Reach out on Instagram at laughing with gingers. Yeah, I'm really curious. I've like searched online. OK, anyway. Is this a real bug or a fake bug? The electric leech. Fake. It is fake. You're right. Dang it. Five to my two.
00:26:44
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I really wanted that to be real and glow in the dark. Yeah, what you want an electric eel to look like. Yeah.
00:26:54
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What they look like in cartoons? Yeah. They all look like that in life, unfortunately. But scorpions, dude, they glow under black light big time. Oh my God, they're so cool. I definitely have gone scorpion hunting a few times and it's really cool when you find it with a black light.
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Huh. I highly recommend it.
Understanding True Bugs
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Mm hmm. Highly recommend it. They glow like, whoa, a ton. It's crazy. Huh. Mm hmm. Who knew? I know. There's there's a lot of interesting interesting things about scorpions that we just don't know because they're not well studied because bugs, you know. Entomologist friends get on it.
00:27:45
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I know, seriously. The lady that was taking us on the tour had all these like weird facts about it, and I can't remember any of them. I was just like blown away by a glow in the dark situation that was going on. That's amazing. I'm so proud of you.
00:28:08
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Oh, God. All right. Next one is this a real bug or a fake bug? True bug. That's the name of it. True bug. My instinct says it's fake, but I'm going to guess real.
00:28:24
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It is real, yes. Okay, true bugs have hyperdermic needle-like mouth parts. That'll allow them. I know, it's so great. Just the term mouth parts is weird in and of itself. It makes me picture Zoidberg from Futurama with a needle. Oh, God, right?
00:28:49
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Oh my God. Their hypodermic needle-like mouth part allows them to extract subsurface fluids from plants and animals. Bugs undergo incomplete metamorphosis with their young looking much like adults, but without wings. That just sounds gross. That whole description, I feel like they just set you up with the worst thing you had to read. Yeah.
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Yeah, basically. God, I'm so glad bugs are awake. Have a cicada. It'll probably settle your stomach. Cicada alka seltzer. Oh, God. Drop it in water and it'll fizz and bubble. Oh, God. Drop, drop. How does it go? Drop, drop, fizz. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh, what a relief it is.
00:29:48
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Do you remember that commercial? Forgot about that. We need to do a marketing episode with weird advertisements. Oh, my God. We really do. Because there's probably some really weird ones out there. Oh, yeah. That's probably a really weird one. I mean, it's not weird, but it's funny. Yeah.
00:30:14
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I mean, I don't know what Alka Seltzer actually helps your stomach not do, but plop, plop seems like a poop thing to me.
00:30:24
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No, you're supposed to plop the tablets in your water. Yes, but it still sounds like a ha-ha. You didn't realize we were talking about poop too. Oh, God. Just wait another 30 minutes. Plop, plop on the other end. Oh, God. Hopefully, no fits this though.
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Oh God. If you're fizzing out of your butthole, something is not okay. You're having a really bad day. Yeah. Too many cicadas. Oh no. All right, the last one. Is this a real bug or a fake bug? Dams will fly. Real.
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It is real. Yep. We're very confident about that answer, Sarah. I was very excited to get my final chocolate covered cicada. And it showed. It did. It really did.
00:31:41
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Okay, so most species fold the wings along the body when they're at rest. Unlike dragonflies, which hold the wings flat and away from the body, damselflies have existed since the Jurassic period and are found on every continent except Antarctica.
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All damselflies are predatory insects, both nymphs and adults actively hunt and eat their other insects. The nymphs are aquatic with different species living in a variety of freshwater habitats.
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including bogs, ponds, lakes, and rivers. The nymphs molt repeatedly and at the last molt climb out of the water to undergo a metamorphosis. The skin splits down the back. They emerge and inflate their wings in abdomen to gain their adult form. Oh, man, I'm so glad this does not happen human size. Oh, God. Yeah, we had them along the Chesapeake Bay growing up.
00:32:42
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We had them maybe in the marshlands where the water is a little bit more protected and in any of the tributaries too. I mean, they eat other bugs, so it sort of sounds like, yeah, we're okay with you. We're okay with you. Yeah.
Mosquito Experiences and Remedies
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If you could focus on mosquitoes, that would be ideal. I know. Those are the worst. They really are.
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Actually, I'm not allergic to them. They don't give me as many bumps as everyone else, but they're still really fucking annoying. Yeah, they get me and the bumps are like gigantic. Take some allergy pills. I found that helps.
00:33:28
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Okay, good to know. I have two chocolate-covered crickets and you have seven chocolate-covered cicadas. That seems like a very well-rounded meal for you, Sarah. Just saying, how did you guys do at home?
00:33:51
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That was fun.
Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
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Thank you everyone for joining us today for this bug edition of laughing with gingers. We are so happy you're listening to our silly podcast. If you like the show, give us a follow rate and review. Maybe in exchange, we will give you a chocolate covered cicada as a thank you for reviewing us on your preferred podcast platform. Follow us on Instagram at laughing with gingers and send us your address.
00:34:25
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I'll mail you a chocolate covered cicada if and when I find one. Oh my God. Good luck out there everyone. And you can also send us funny stories and episode ideas or just generally like send us cool stuff on Instagram. We love it. We will even accept bug facts. Yeah. Or like tag us in a cool looking bug. It's safer when the bug is virtual.
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