Close to Home by John McPherson for June 18, 2024

’Probably practicing the crawl.

This kind of problem will take care of itself any moment

Bleeb would help if he wasn’t trapped behind the sliding glass door!

A new version of Metamorphosis.

I hope it s BIG skimmer.

Bleeb has the right idea.

What are these humans doing at the beetle’s pool?

Forget the skimmer you need Ripley’s M41A.

You’re going to need a bigger skimmer.

That would tick me off!

Bleeb! Make yourself useful and do some of that antenna talkin’ with it!

Okay… Bleeb said; he’s already eaten the skimmer and that he’s just washin’ off the bug juice you squirted him with earlier, and then he’s leavin’… he promised!

More to the point, RUN!

“I think we’re going to need a bigger skimmer.” Forget Jaws, it’s…. MANDIBLES.

Time to move out.

No biggie, looks like it’s crawling out anyway…

Quick Henry! The Flit!

Get the shotgun, get the shotgun.

He also forgot to put his bathing suit on………

Is that the Australian crawl he’s doing? :)

better yet, call the pool boy!!

They were told there was a bug going around.

Ah cmon, it’s just a harmless water bug.

I’m not going in there!!!!!!!!!!!! I know what bugs do in water! Isn’t that right, Bleeb? :)

Gregor Samsa woke up one morning and decided to go for a swim in his neighbor’s pool.

The heck with the skimmer? Get the flamethrower.

these guys live next door to a nuclear waste dump??

Ha! And the camera!

Indoor pools don’t have that problem quite as much, though bugs do get inside at times.

Forget the skimmer, get the National Guard!

Or the beetle rifle.

It’s just a little beetle.

Skimmer?

we used to get water beetles in our little pond but nothing like that

Get the skimmer before the beetle does

Which one of them is she talking to? Maybe she should start moving and pretend she is getting the skimmer.