Ander- Red
After reading the Earwig's Tail, I noticed several misconceptions throughout the book so Ander and I decided to do another blog post on the book. This post is about the second half of the book. The chapter and misconception that I wanted to address was the toilet spider. The misconception was that the Chicago airport bathrooms were infested with blush spiders. So when people would use the bathroom these spiders would bite them causing them to experience fevers, chills, vomiting, paralysis, and in three cases death when traveling on the planes. Although, they come to find out that the whole thing was just a hoax and was not true. Another urban legend in this chapter was the beehive hair. A girl had a beehive do and left it there for several days and before she knew it bees and other insects were in her hair. It sounds really gross but it was funny. This class has been one of the best and most interesting classes ever! I strongly encourage people to go back and really read this chapter (the toilet spider) because there are many urban legends that are funny and cool. I really enjoyed this book and semester and would encourage anyone and everyone to take this class. It teaches you several things about insects and life lessons.
Last night I watched the movie bugs life. This has always been one of my favorite movies since I was a little kid. This movie is about a colony of ants living together and the problems that they face. The main character is an ant called Flik. Flik has a huge crush on the princess ant Atta. Each year the ants colony must collect food for the grasshopper's. If they do not do this the grasshoppers will kill all of the ants. The grasshoppers are led by an evil grasshopper named Hopper. At the begging of the movie Flik, who is an inventor (although not a very successful one) knows down all of the food that the ant colony had gotten for Hopper and the other grasshoppers. This makes the grasshoppers mad and now tell the ant colony that they must get double the amount of food or they will kill them. After this Flik gets a job where he is suppose to go recruit other insects to fight the grasshoppers. The ant colony ask him to do this because they thought it would result in his death. To make the story short Flick goes and finds a circus group of insects and convinces them to come and fake being warriors. When Flick returns home he is greeted with gifts and becomes a star because they think they have warriors to fight the cockroaches. They device a plan, but it does not work. However the ants realize that they have more numbers then the cockroaches and attack them with the help of their new circus friends. This is a great movie. What I realized about this movie was that all of the characters are made to look like humans rather than insects. The cockroaches look like a human and so do the ants.
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