Uptown Blattidae Night

The air is very balmy - it is one of those nights where, if I was eighteen again, I'd be wishing I had a honey to blow in my ear and walk around the neighborhood holding hands.


All six of them.

This has got to be Exoskeleton Week in Baltimore. If you crunch when somebody steps on you, it's your party. While I was perching near the Transit Authority's posies at the train station, I kept seeing these huge black things with thick, long antennae. After a moment or two, I realized they were just really big crickets. But LOTS of crickets. Everywhere.


I got off the bus uptown, where I live. No crickets. Instead, there were "waterbugs".  Doesn't that sound way better than American cockroaches?  They were in full force. Fortunately, these tanks prefer to live outside. They were so large and so numerous, they made a tinny, percussive racket scattering as I walked toward them.


If you've got six legs in this town, you are in da zone. I think they heard about December 2012 and decided to take to the streets early.

So that's what's going on here. Anything bugging you these days?