"There is a seriously large bug out there," an unofficial source said.
In Scotland, earwigs are sometimes referred to as 'Forky Tailies', but the name "earwig" originates from old tales that state earwigs enter into an animal's ears and deposit eggs on the cranium - the notion that it "penetrates into the head through the ear." Let's hope there are no such sized ears in Germany.
OK, OK. So the reality is that it its not a 50 meter bug. To scale at over 50 metres, this would have been 'The Largest Bug Ever'. Fortunately, however, this bug has crawled its last ear, and met its untimely end. Coming in at a, still impressive, 3mm long it was squashed between a glass plate and film during the scanning process used to add maps to Googles popular online service.
Which suggests, of course, that it was a dark but starry end for our six-legged friend.
