So...Just in case you didn't catch it before...Japan is mostly a tropical island...that has snow. Confusing? Yes. Most of the time, my house is full of bugs. I have been collecting some of the pictures of the bugs that terrify me on a regular basis. Luckily, there are no mukade. What is a mukade? This is a mukade:
This is absolutely terrifying. They are poisonous (not lethal) and they like the dark. No thank you. We don't have these though.
We do have this large spider that builds webs like a champion.
This is another, bigger spider that I saw and when I got close to take a picture, it started dropping and I think it said something offensive to me. It is dang scary. We have some spiders that are called Huntsman spiders (that I guess they have in Australia as well). They are big but not poisonous. Evidently all the spiders in Japan are non-lethal and most aren't poisonous. Something about being an island or something...I don't know.
On to other annoying and less terrifying bugs. This is a cicada (on the left side of the ladder, you can see the big wings). They amek an awful ruckus that ensures that I don't sleep past 10 am because they and all their buddies are making noise.
This is a dead one I found, From nose to tip they are about 3.5 inches long.
And finally, the super crunchy Japanese Beetle. I saw this at the train station and it is was huge. It is roughly the size of my old cell phone. I am told that the kids gather these and fight them against each other.
Not appearing are the fruit flies that have invaded my house, gnats that are EVERYWHERE, 7 or 8 different kinds of moths outside my house every day and a terrifying cricket that looked like something from the movie Starship Troopers. I am not a bug person, but I am learning to ignore them. Except mukade, if i ever see one of those, I'm coming home.
