Scuttles in pursuit of darkness. Foul-smelling, skin-shedding. A pest of book collections; page-eating, destructive. Ground up with oil, a remedy for earache. Infused in tea as a cure for tetanus. Delicious when fried in a wok. The body flees danger even when the head is removed. The head can survive for some time, while the antennae carry on wiggling. In An Insect that Shuns the Light, unrelated objects of conflicting scales collide across several episodes, wherein eruptions of activity and saturation scramble towards nothingness.