When I grew up in the Old Country we had a few mosquitos and swarms of flies. Bees and wasps, but no hornets. We had spiders and roaches, but I can't recall having crickets. If we had poisonous snakes, no one ever warned me about it.
I want to show my friends, that follow this blog, from Europa, India, Australia, and many other foreign lands what crawls around in this hemisphere.
This spider, I do not know its name, is about four centimeter in length. With front legs like that, it sure looks like it could do some damage.
I don't know what this fellow is called, but with feelers like that his reach is great.
This monster, about three centimeter long, is actually a shell out of which crawled a Cicada.
A Cicada crawls from deep inside the ground every thirteen years. Unlike the locust, it does not eat any vegetation. It simply climbs a tree or bush until it finds a tender twig to lay its eggs. It does that by drilling holes in the bark in the hopes the winter wind will break off the twig. The twig falls to the ground, is covered with leaves. When the branch decays, the larvae will bury itself to begin the cycle anew.
This is a Walking Stick. An insect that can hide in bushes and flowers to snatch other and smaller insect. The picture shows one about fourteen centimeters long.
The Praying Mantis is a highly prized insect to have in ones flower bed. This specimen is about nine centimeters long. Like the scarcer Walking Stick, it blends into the surroundings. However, this insect can also change its color to better hide from its prey. It snatches and feeds on many aphids and other sap-sucking bugs.
Isn't God good? He's got it all figured out!
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