Saturday, July 10, 2010
Geji Geji!
Usually I am okay with bugs, with the exception of spiders. I think it has to do with the legs. If something has more than 4 or 6 legs, I tend to not like it. Today we were in the backyard doing yardwork when I saw an uncountable number of legs sticking out of a beam on our patio roof. It was disgusting, and I might have freaked out a little bit. After further research, I found that it is a Geji, a household centipede that eats cockroaches and other bugs, and it is considered a good bug in Japan. I am still disgusted, and hope that I never find one inside the house.
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You are right; this is a good guy to have aound the house. He kills and eats things that can actually hurt you. We have them in the states, too.
ReplyDeletethey are like AJ bugs! i found one onetime and brought it to the entomology dept and they put it in a vial for me. I still have it =P
ReplyDeleteWe haven't seen any bugs inside the house yet, so hopefully it's a good thing they aren't inside. Nothing for them to eat! We have a man hole in the backyard, and I bet it's eating cockroaches out of it!
ReplyDeleteI totally forgot about the dorm bugs! This is just like it, only bigger. Yuck! I miss AJ.... :)
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