Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Why do bugs take the trouble to get into light fixtures merely to die there?

No one wins: the bugs are dead, and my light is full of dead bugs.  Which is gross.

This baffles on two counts.  First, a lamp has no discernible appeal, even to a tiny, stupid bug.  There is certainly no food within your bog-standard light fixture.  Second, while the globe may not be entirely air-tight, it's close, and the effort expended to get into it seems prohibitively high compared to the pay-off (which is, we remember, death).

Get out, bugs.  This ain't no Starship Troopers.

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