okok, i KNOW i briefly mentioned this before, but.. this country - or rather - this ISLAND, have an interesting bug life.... there's not one single day when i don't see an instect/bug/unidentifiable nasty creature flying/crawling/whizzing past..
lastly - the cicadas. they started about a month ago.. at first i thought they were really loud birds.. you very rarely see them, but they sound like humongous flocks of birds in the trees around here.. but.. i very quickly found out that they're indeed, insects. and they're HUUUGE!!! check out the image above, and imagine an insect that looks like that, but is about 3/4 of your thumb lenght??? and they're not afraid of humans either, they rather come dive bomb you... NASTY creatures.
and not only that.. before they're fully developed, they look like a 10000% enlarged bed bug, they leave these nasty empty husks behind. i almost fell over and dropped a rock on my foot, as i was building up rocks around the dog kennel out back the first time i saw one of 'em.
gross!!!
and then we got the beetles, the ants, the centipeds aaand the various kinds of other critters.. :) oh, not to forget the fleas that attacked scoobs and tay the first couple of weeks here.. never seen anything like it. i don't even think they were fleas, nor ticks.. there's something else here, something right between them two, i had to use tweazers to pick them from the poor dogs, and they were bloody hard to pull loose. suuuper gross. :(
wonder if one ever gets used to 'em?
.c
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