Bugs & Critters

Look At This Incredible Insect Pretending To Be A Leaf

Nature is incredible.   Look at this guy. It’s an insect of the phylliidae family. Beautiful, isn’t it? We only found it because it was sitting on a rock. In a tree you would never see this. Awesome camouflage skills. Look at it’s legs! They’re tiny leafs, including the brown serrated edges.   Even it’s mouth looks leafy. Or like something from a horror movie. You choose. Loving this!  

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The Boob Stories Continue…(and other highlights of the day at 7.30 am)

…Literally five minutes ago I picked up my bra from the floor to put it on and a baby gecko fell out of it.   A Baby Gecko. Now, baby geckos are adorable so it´s not so bad as finding a squished bug under your boob, but still. Why the hell was there a baby gecko in my bra? Why are there living things inside my bra at all? (apart from my own boobs, thankyouverymuch, who…

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Boob-bugs and the best office in the world

Sometimes I am really, really fed up with living in the tropics. One of those times was yesterday when I unwrapped my towel around me, ready to have a shower, and a squashed bug fell out from under my boob. I don’t know if this is a thing that regularly happens to people in let’s say, Europe? Or other temperate climates? I mean there’s bugs there too, so please share your boob-bug stories with me so…

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So Much For Good Intentions And Trying Not To Stink Up The Whole Room

I should probably write weekly updates about the encounters with strange tropical critters, both above and below the surface. But I don’t. However, picture the following scene.   After weeks of being a lazy-ass I got hit by the sudden urge to go for a run. No idea where that came from, but anyway. My running shoes had been outside the room since the last time I went running, because, you know, I don’t want…

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