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There's an high likelihood that the cat doesn't care or is as scared as Mimi https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/149477180
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I have to keep my window a little bit open because I use a window AC unit. Unfortunately, the build quality isn't great and the unit is old, so there are small gaps around it. Unsurprisingly, bugs get in and, I guess because I live in a fairly rural area, the diversity is kind of impressive. I would be very surprised if nothing had climbed on me in my sleep. Just a few days ago I was laying in bed reading and a moth tried to fly straight up my nose, then into my eye. I don't think either of us enjoyed the experience.
A week or two ago, I got an irritated spot on one of my eyes. I don't know what caused it; maybe it was another moth. Anyway, I kept track of it but didn't worry too much because there were no other symptoms. Then, one late night or early morning, I was trying to sleep but having no luck. As I laid with my eyes closed, I kept seeing flashes, but when I'd open my eyes there would be nothing flashing.
I was worried that my eye irritation had finally come to fruition and my retinas were detaching or something. That didn't help with the insomnia ... Eventually, though, I happened to open my eyes just as a lightning bug (or firefly or whatever your region calls them) flew right past my nose, blinking merrily.
That was a relief!
Aww, I've seen only a couple fireflies this year, but I guess that's to be expected in a city. I don't generally mind other bugs and spiders, I just relocate them (or turn them into a pancake if it's a mosquito). Just the other day I had to rescue two larger spiders that couldn't climb out of our kitchen sink. I don't like them crawling on me, it's just a lizard brain reflex, but spiders are cool otherwise.
Roaches on the other hand... they're too fast and they only appear if there's something nasty going on. In this case, our ex-neighbor would leave food leftovers on the balcony table to marinate for over a week. She kicked out a rug on the balcony that her cat pissed all over and it stank for well over a week of cat piss. Don't think she ever cleaned that up. She also leaves her cat for weeks alone when she's gone, so I'm gonna assume the place on the inside also gets nasty.
Too fast...for you to smash with your shoe, I must presume.
Not that fast. But faster than any insect or spider of that size I've encountered. Weirds me out.
I'm certainly not a fan of roaches, agreed there.
Where I grew up wasn't the city, but neither was it very rural. Still, during the summers I could look at my neighbor's yard and see what seemed like a field of blinking fireflies. We went out and caught some of them a few times, and with no major difficulties because they were so multitudinous.
Admittedly I haven't been to that house in years, but still - other than the one in my story above, I don't remember the last time I saw one in person.