Great job coming up with more types of bugs. The green-eyed monster and the love bug were the imaginary biting bugs I had in mind.
Here is a list of all the bugs named since I started this thread. I hope I didn't forget any: ANTS that Clara feared would be attracted by spilled grease. Opie wanted to bring them home and make an ant farm, but Aunt Bee promptly vetoed that idea. APHIDS Mr. Wheeler noticed on Aunt Bee's roses; Also mentioned in the "prize rose" episode "Bug" (microphone) Opie planted in the jail cell "Bug" (virus or similar) that Barney was afraid would get down in his lair-nix Barney insisted that any normal person could tell that the ink blot test was a BUTTERFLY CENTIPEDE, that's a bug with a hundred legs FIREBUG, a name Uncle Ollie called the man who parked by a hydrant Doggone FIREFLY that Otis claimed knocked him down FLY that Andy swatted on Helen's back. Flies are also mentioned in other episodes (Back to Nature, The Pickle Story, Man's Best Friend etc.) Gomer apparently thought that a GREEN-EYED MONSTER was a type of bug, and not a metaphor for jealousy Briscoe claimed that Andy and Opie didn't eat enough to keep a JUNE BUG alive. Gonna be another hot one. Hear them LOCUSTS? Andy advised Opie to treat girls as nicely as possible, and after that the LOVE BUG might bite You don't want a bat or a MOTH in your hair. They get tangled up and lay their eggs and you go crazy. If a was a SPIDER, that's where I'd go. Unspecified bugs Opie prepared for baby birds, and the ones that hit the Darling boy that sat on the hood of the truck holding a lantern Here are more hints on others that haven't been named yet: a certain tree in town is said to have an infestation, and the "homes" of two different stinging insects are mentioned in two early episodes. Paul Mulik _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
