1.    A boy and his mother. His life savings, her loose change. Ten dollars for an insect catching cage.

3.    The sickening crunch of a snail underfoot.

4.    A fat beetle, scurrying around the underneath of a bed, emerging wearing dust-bunny boots.

5.    A tarantula encased in glass, its fur still bristling, frozen in dead motion.

6.    Leeches, caught, left out in the sun to dry.

7.    An involuntary anger upon the whiff of a cockroach.

8.    Leaving the cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling, because maybe the spiders will help catch the insects, because really, they're too high to reach.

9.    Mayflies wait for years to live for a day.

10.    A centipede tattoo, twisting around a bicep.

11.    Cochineal red.

12.    The thrumming of insects against a mosquito net, relentless.

13.    A ladybug, stuck on its back, flailing its tiny limbs to get back up again, because they breathe from their backs, and if they don't manage to turn around they suffocate.

14.    Millipedes, fat with rain, curled up like dead, wet fingers on the ground.

15.    A single housefly. Trapped, thumping against the glass to get out.

16.    A boy and his mother. Her life savings, his loose change. A thousand dollars for an insect catching cage.