Tag: insects

Of sorts. Orange stripes would make you think of a bee, right? Yeah, not so much. From…

I went outside to the front yard – probably to hang up laundry or something – and…

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. … Cuz I really don’t think we’re in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.

Mosquitoes bite me – and they bite me by the dozens to hundreds while everyone else around me is left completely alone – and the white part swells up to between a half inch to an inch in diameter with the red bit sometimes 4-6 inches in diameter. … Well, you get the idea. 🙂 I don’t know for a fact that I’m allergic to bees and wasps and other of the more, ah, dangerous insects, but given my allergic reactions in general and with insects, it’s a pretty safe bet that getting stung by them probably wouldn’t be a good idea, you know what I mean? 🙂 So why, oh why, do I do some of the things I do? I was outside and saw a bunch of flying insects swarming in the area around our no-longer-in-use Dialog satellite dish, so naturally, I had to take a step closer to find out what was going on.

We have a lot of ants here. Big ants, little ants, littler ants. Some are fast and…

I wish I knew what this flower is called. It has such an unusual – to me…

Cows are everywhere here. Cows that wander freely through neighborhoods and even in heavy traffic are common…

I generally make it a rule to stay as far away from biting insects as I can….

Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph…

I don’t even know why it’s called a centipede. It doesn’t have a hundred legs, yet, centipede…

Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to…

I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks…

My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it…

No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know…

Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…

It’s staring at you. Can you feel it? I think it’s looking for its target…

😀 May he rest in peace. Or pieces. 😀

Every now and then, we have bugs that voluntarily die. Old age, maybe. This one landed on…

I’ve got to admit, it’s true, wasps frighten me. I’m allergic to just about every kind of…

This picture is for the shop where I bought my stone mortar and pestle and cast iron…

We have altogether too many bugs and insects and creepy crawlies and things that make me scream…

I wandered outside to our garden and looked at our pretty flowers (did you notice the ant…