Friday, September 16, 2005

Tongue-Eating Bug

I'm not sure I needed to know about this. The bug eats a fish tongue down to the nub and then latches on to become the replacement tongue.

Who's in charge here?

10 comments:

bjanepr said...

um, eww?

Gura said...

that's like some creature out of Monster's Inc. where they feed the little head inside them.

Anonymous said...

Ver, stop making me crack up at the school library! It's most inconvenient. Everyone's staring at me now!

:D

Jean Vengua said...

yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!

talk about a specialized function...!

ver said...

I just want to know what Darwin would make of this? *shudder*

A. D. said...

blech . . .

this is ver-y gross.

no fish for me for a while.

Carl said...

Perhaps we need to change the old adage, "...cat got your tongue" to "worm got your tongue"?

cornshake said...

oh, but come on, you ARE a better person for the knowledge, no? this is what I came out of hibernation to tell everyone??? ;)
btw, i just checked yr. blog (tues. afternoon!)--i looooove letters--can i still get in? pls. oh pretty pls? i have the best stationary too...

ver said...

But Aimee!! We already did the draw.

Gah!

Next time, next time. People will be arguing over who gets to receive a letter from Aimee written on cupcake stationery...

cornshake said...

aw shucks. didn't see that when I commented. next time for sure!