Beastly Bugs and Beautiful Birds

Disease, illness, allergies, music and colors in nature (and by man) are much bigger, more vivid and INTENSE here!  Check out these bugs...      

Look at the spikes on his back!  Normally I'm not afraid of bugs, I mean I AM bigger and can just squish them.  But this one would have some serious CRUNCH - it makes me want to hurl just thinking about it!

This spider is as big as your hand!

One of these bit me on the leg when I was sitting outside at Alice's house once....I squished it...so proud  :)

This moth is on a tie.  It looks like there is an allegator on it's back!

This is what I like to see...one beastly bug eating another!

This is an inch-wide trail of ants.

One night these bugs were thick as fog.  When we got home we found at least a dozen frogs lined up along the house eating them until they were so fat they could hardly move.  The next day they were all gone and so were the frogs.

These creepy little lizards are in our house!  They are worse than mice and we can't get rid of them.  They like to stay on the ceiling and the top of the walls, I'm afraid one will fall on my head...at least they eat the bugs.

I almost stepped on one of these when I was walking one morning!

Other not-so-lucky missionaries found this one in their apartment.

These cute little things always sit on the rebar outside one of the mission home windows.

Seriously there must be 300 roosters in our neighborhood and they crow ALL night except between 3-4 am!  The best gift you can give someone is a live chicken...they eat every part! 

Locals paint their chickens because they believe that it keeps other birds from eating them.  We eat a lot of eggs for protein and haven't died...yet, but eggs are never refrigerated here!  I asked a local about it and he laughed and asked "Do Americans believe that chickens lay their eggs in a refrigerator?"  Well...   

There are several different types of basket nest type birds - it's hard to see this one in the center. 

There are always several of these on the grass at the mission home.

There are baskets of birds on top of this bus.  It always amazes me to see what other type of livestock are transported this way.