I don't know about you, but I think Florida has the largest insects in the lower forty-eight.
This is a photo of a grasshopper I found clinging to the gate where I let the puppies out. Just an ordinary old grasshopper, but big enough to cause me to stay my distance.
I am amazed at the little surprises I find in a photograph, especially when I crop it.
For example, scroll back up and look at all the tiny holes in this ordinary grasshopper. They look like holes to me. Anyway I took its photograph with a watchful eye.
I did not get down eyeball to eyeball with this grasshopper for fear it would leap on my eyebrows.
Talk about big? This Banana spider is huge. Using the shelf of my right index finger I measured it to be three inches from the bottom of the lower leg to the top of the higher leg. The photograph is taken from inside my house looking out. A safe place in my opinion.
I say "Give me a grasshopper any day of the week, but please spare me the banana spider."
Not only are banana spiders huge in North Florida, they spin very sticky webs in inconvenient places, such as from my carport roof down to the car door handle.
The most horrible sensation is knowing you've walked in a banana spider's web because it is strung across your face and has attached itself to your hair, and worse yet, you don't know if it is on you or not. Yuck!
That's when I call on Clay to save me from the banana spiders. "Get it off!" I screech, and Clay reassures me that nothing is in my hair on or my back.
Dear sweet Clay. Always saving his mama from menacing looking creatures.
Thanks, son.
The grasshopper looks really prehistoric in its silver armor. Good photo.
Posted by: Sherry | August 07, 2010 at 12:36 PM