‘Swarmageddon’ Terrifies People Who Hate Bugs, Obviously
LatestPeople who fear bugs will be especially put upon during “Swarmageddon,” and you might never have figured this out if the cicada scribes at the Washington Post, a periodical chronicling the latest developments in entomology, hadn’t taken the time to explain that people who already hate bugs hate the idea of a lot of noisy bugs concentrated in one place.
Entomophobia (or Insectphobia, for the stupids) is fairly widespread in America, and can become quite paralyzing, with sufferers sometimes experiencing severe emotional reactions at the mere thought of some rough-carapaced arthropod crawling stealthily along their bedposts at night, hoping to lay millions of eggs in their mouths and tap dance all across their bellies. The Post explains that such fear of creepy crawlers can get so acute that some entomophobes have planned to go into full-scale social hibernation this summer, cancelling summer classes and even stocking up on canned goods with more paranoid rapacity than Michael Shannon in Take Shelter.