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Since our winter lasted so long, now that’s it’s warmer, I simply HAVE to be outdoors. However, it’s hard to stay outside for long periods of time, though, because of all the freakin’ bugs! I’ve been equally fascinated and horrified at the number of insects I’ve never seen before.
Take, for instance, this bee. Yeah, I may have have spent most of my life in large cities but I have seen bees before – but look at this one. The proboscis alone is worthy of a blood curdling scream (from me). It is so long! Just imagine: OUCH!!! And since I’ve never been stung by a bee, but am extremely allergic to spider and mosquito bites, I fear that a bee sting might kill me. (I’m also very melodramatic, paranoid and I’ve watched way too much TV, which ammos my imagination.) Anyway, maybe I’ve lead a sheltered life but this bee is scary! And it’s only one of many that I’ve never seen before. They seem like mutants. Yes. Mutants.
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you brought a smile to my face, pt! 
but, I can honestly relate to the BIG bug thing and unusual bug thing here in Japan too. Cicadas are really huge and noisy and they die wherever and whenever they please…you see the dead ones all over the place and the shells of their cocooned bodies when they hatch, just lying on plants…eww.
ah yea, cicadas are loud but i don’t think i’ve ever actually seen one. eiuw! i’ve seen rainbow colored superpsychedelic enormous metalic beetles and the biggest hornets EVER. there were tons of nests in our garage! i hope the garden veggies will survive the bug attacks.
Comment by ptinfrance 06.22.06 @ 5:11 amI’ll be sure to post about the cicada this summer so you can see how huge these boys are!! I’m crossing my fingers for your garden!
Comment by Kat 06.22.06 @ 7:19 pmah thanks about the garden. we’ll see. i need to find a environmentally friendly product to repel them i think.
Comment by ptinfrance 06.23.06 @ 7:14 amOf course, you realize that the sting comes from the other end of the bee..not the proboscis. P.S. The most agressive bees I’ve ever seen are in Germany. I’m allergic too and those guys frighten me.
Comment by snn 06.30.06 @ 11:42 amLeave a comment
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