Yeah, I already knew that, even if it was a cockroach, it wouldn't harm me. Mostly, I was posting because I was amused by my own patheticness, and the fact I figured it couldn't be a cockroach based on the appearance of such bugs in video games :)
I think meirion might be right and it's some sort of flying beetle - I didn't know such things existed, although thinking about it for more than a second, ladybirds are beetles and "everyone" knows ladybirds "fly away home" from the rhyme. The shape of it would seem right for a creature with wings, and it would explain how it got in - we've had any number of interesting moths and butterflies pay us a visit over the past few days when the windows have been wide open to deal with the hot weather, including at least one speckled moth (favourite of GCSE Biology textbooks and exam papers!). Also, the beetle that Richard saw in the street and thought was a cockroach was a lot bigger - 1.5 - 2 inches, rather than cm. (It had fallen on its back with its legs waggling in the air, and Richard rescued it by turning it over.)
Why are cockroaches supposed to be disgusting and horrible, anyway? Is it supposedly a sign that your house hasn't been properly cleaned, or something? Aren't they one of these things that, in other parts of the world, are just endemic and you co-exist with them peacefully?
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Date: 2006-06-13 08:04 pm (UTC)I think
Why are cockroaches supposed to be disgusting and horrible, anyway? Is it supposedly a sign that your house hasn't been properly cleaned, or something? Aren't they one of these things that, in other parts of the world, are just endemic and you co-exist with them peacefully?