Since I moved here a few years ago (is it six, or eight ?)
shield-bugs have proliferated inside the house in winter,
on floors and walls and windows.
They are also known as stink-bugs,
because, when touched, they emit a smell
a bit like bitter almonds (cyanide ?)
which I quite like.
I'm sniffing my fingers while I type.
Now, are you going to tell
me that I've no sense of smell ?
I certainly would find it difficult to distinguish
the aroma of a Saint-Nectaire cheese
from the odour between my toes.
1 comment:
That certainly is a terrific photo of a stink-bug (as good as one of yours ?), and the subject very much more beautiful than narcissistic Caravaggio!
Yours with shield-bugs on his living-room walls,
Anthony.
(I have just two warm rooms in my house, neither of them a bathroom or a kitchen.)
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