Indian Samurai इंडियन सामुराई

If you spend some time in India, you will very surely come across cockroaches, lizards, spiders, all very normal! And if you pay some attention, you will probably see this thing too:

Well maybe you have wondered what it is??

It is called “Plaster bagworms” or “household case bearer” or “Household Case-bearing Moth” (Phereoeca allutella for the Indian version).

They are similar in appearance and closely related to clothes moths. The larvae of bagworms live in a flattened, gray, watermelon seed-shaped case about 1.3 cm long. The case is constructed of silken fiber and sand particles, lint, paint fragments, and other debris. The case has a slit-like opening at each end, and the larva is able to move around and feed from either end.

The larvae mainly feed on spider webs; however, they will also feed on fabrics made of natural fiber.

The household casebearer requires high humidity to complete its development. Phereoeca allutella (Rebel) has been recorded in Hawaii, Panama, Canary Islands, Madeira, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, India, Java and Samoa.

To get rid of them, first get rid of spider webs and clean regularly. Or call pest control…

Sources:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ig090

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/occas/household_casebearer.htm

To continue with the theme http://www.indiandacoit.com/archive/2011/09/24/trash.html

Photos of trash picking on Juhu Beach (one of the biggest beach of Mumbai) on a Saturday afternoon!!

Yeah, manually, and so what?? ;) 

It all started a few months after I arrived in Mumbai…

I had been hunting a rat in my flat, without success, when this horrid smell started. Shit, it must be dead in an impossible place to find!! I started looking anyway, without success again.

I then stepped out of my flat, only to realise that the whole neighbourhood smelled of dead rat!

To be accurate, of dead fish.

And here we are, 3 years later, when I finally decide to look into it. The thing that has “bothered” me the most is that this is not a constant smell. It will someday come, stay the whole day and then disappear. So I wondered why…

After some research, I think it depends on 2 things: 1. when the fishermen go fishing which is linked to the moon, 2. the way the wind blows when the fish is drying.

To go a bit into details: