Friday, August 25, 2006

Help Wanted! I Have An Illegal Bug Problem

Recently my bathroom was attacked by Carpet Beetles. The Carpet Beetle (A.K.A. Attagenus mezatoma) is a beetle that lives in and eats fibrous materials such as carpet, thread, wool, and pretty much anything that is somewhat cloth like. They also sit on the wall and produce 30-100 larva all around my bathroom. I noticed the first one about two months ago after coming back from the White Mountains it actually flew out of my pants while eating dinner with my friend. I am assuming that there were more and I am not sure if it really came from the White Mountains or if it came from some new clothes that I purchased. Either of the two ways are very viable ways of the beetle getting in. On average I can get about 50 to 75 in a couple of days. I called my bug guy and we had him come to spray and try to get them out, but it didn't work. So at that point I decided to follow another example.

I looked around my bathroom and saw that I didn't have enough carpets for the bugs to eat so I went out and bought a few more rugs to lay around my bathroom. After giving them a good amount of food to survive I saw a bug that looked as though it was hurt. So I picked up this bug and brought him into another part of the house where he could get the appropriate rest away from the other bugs. After a while there were more bugs that were getting sick so I had to use my dogs bed to accommodate them all and unfortunately my dog had to give up his comfort in order to save all of the little bugs. These beetles do a great job of eating rags and things that I don't need anymore so I picked up all of the rugs that I bought for them and gave them all of the old rags that I don't need anymore instead. I did this in order to take advantage of their hard working abilities, so that makes it all worth while. There are some other types of carpet beetles that are a bit more dangerous but I figured that it was a risk that I had to take because these beetles just want to eat and now work on getting rid of my old rags. It is great because they are reproducing at an alarming rate so I can get twice as much work done on my dirty rags once they all are full grown. Soon I will no longer be able to use my bathroom and might be giving up my bedroom as well in order to accommodate for these beetles. All of this happened because I decided to follow the example of the United States Government and their immigration policy.

Now it is time to clarify. The bugs should not be there and will not remain there because I am going to do something about it. Apparently this mind set is not mutually felt in Washington in regards to the illegal immigration problem. And judging form what I can see something needs to be done.

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