h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I went to Ibiza, al the insects were bigger than here, it was brilliant. Cockroaches were everywhere and beautifully coloured, I had great fun picking them up and playing with them. Gorgeous creatures! Thats also where I found my only (so far) praying mantis, I cried so much, I had always wanted to handle one, it was a truely spiritual experience for me!

How nice to know that there can be such a thing as a beautiful cockroach! Just shows, you never can tell....

Whenever I move I find one cockroach in my moving boxes, I think to welcome me in!! Insects are very sacred for me

sorry Kaz, but those beautifully coloured flying insects are actually called *butterflies*.

cockroaches are the slimy creepy gross ones that go *crunch* when you step on them and then don't die for days.

agree with you about praying mantis (mantises? manti?) though . . .

az

Cockroachs 'slimy', have you never handled one then?

As for killingone, why would I want to?

Admittedle I wouldn't want to be invested with them, but there is a unique way of getting rid of them. Its by talking to them, more details in 'The Voice of the Infinate in the Small' by Joanne Lauck. She is also an insect nut and wrote her book to educate people against emotional 'yuk' conditioning. Its great stuff!

By the way, I have linked better with beetles then with butterflies!

Those aged ladies dressed in old styles were sitting by the girlies with the beehives who were their grandaughters during that same decade.
They were not "new" fashion at the same time!