Just something overheard

Eons ago, I had what I thought was a quite glamouress nightgown. Double layers of chiffon in purple and black. One night I was just about to get into bed with newish husband when I heard a buzzing noise. Looked all round bedroom but noise just seemed to follow me around. Became near hysterical when I realised it was an angry bee trapped between layers of nightgown. Husband who was vegetarian, was more concerned about the bee. He never was a keeper.

Oh!!!!!! Just read the ‘thing’ about figs.

Does that mean figs are a ‘no go area’ for vegetarians and vegans?

I have just read about wasps and figs. As a child we ate food containg cochineal and gelatine despite knowing how they were made, so no problem with figs.

Luckily for us, the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely. The crunchy bits are seeds, not wasp parts.

Eeeek! I don't want to read about spiders biting.

My late aunt didn't have very good eyesight, we were having a salad lunch with her one day when when she stood up with her fork in her hand, went the window, shook the fork out of the window, came back, sat down and said " slug" and carried on eating!

Oh dear I wish I hadn’t read this thread.
Our fig tree is covered with what we hope will be lovely juicy fruits.

Like Lemon I’m ignoring the link.

Absolute is my new swear word now?

They're not so good when they bite!

They're better when they look like blobs.

I'd better delay that opticians appointment for a bit longer then!

I'm really afraid of spiders, although better than I used to be before my eyesight got worse.

They're better when they look like blobs.

Me neither.
Or Daddy Long Legs, although there don't seem to be as many around in recent years.

Creepy crawlers, spiders, earwigs, woodlice.... nah, they don't bother me. Moths on the other hand I just can't be in the same room as them.

I really dislike creepy crawlies.
All of them, really.

Gah! MissA I don't know whether that made me laugh or shudder! The thought of a slug popping is just bleurgh as well!

I stepped out of my.mum's backdoor and trod on a slug, and it's insides made a squeaking sound as they squished out.
It was traumatic, but the saving grace was that I was wearing mum's slippers at the time.

I shoved my foot into my walking boot this afternoon and heard/felt a crunch. Took my foot back out and there was a flattened big brown moth stuck to the bottom of my sock. Bleurgh.

We used to go on holiday to a caravan, rather than cook in the van there was a shed which housed the cooking facilities. Earwigs used to fall into the frying pan.....

I was woken by a spider biting my hand, once.
It felt like a pin prick and was sore for days afterwards.

You've probably not seen one because they're all living here, and oh boy! They are BIG!

I was bitten by a spider here (Cornwall). I brushed against a hedge and dislodged it. It landed on my neck and I had a puncture mark there for several days. Honestly! Earwigs are a nightmare on my allotment. They eat my globe artichokes (such a First World problem ).

I’m not going to read anything about figs?

I like the absolute bit MissA does he think it means enormous or is absolute a cool word now?
I haven’t seen an earwig for years ( and don’t want to start seeing them now either.)
Years ago in Spain, a huge feathery earwig type thing emerged from a crack in the wall in our villa every evening.
DS aged about ten, called it Albert and wanted to take it home with us at the end of the holiday.....shudder.

Earwigs do nurture their young, though.
I think it's unheard of, almost, in the insect world. I wish they wouldn't.

bite not bits.

Eloethan I think it’s the pincers that bits.

I’ve just read your link about figs. Isn’t nature wonderful? ?

There used to be a programme about a family living as they did in the "olden days".

The woman made pork pie, I think it was, with a pig's eye in the middle of it.
That was a treat if you got that.