Thursday, November 11

Insects

There are some strange differences that a person will notice when they move 700 miles south. Until a couple months ago, this was as far south as I'd ever been. The weather was smoldering, the people talked funny (some of them, mind you), to name a few. These are all things I'd been prepared for, at least a little bit.

One thing I wasn't prepared for was the difference in the local wildlife. By that I mean bugs. It's not so noticable, if you don't look for it, and I'm sure that Wisconsin makes up for their lack of bugs in their frozen-tundra-esque winters, but I've seen it. It's not so much that they're grosser than our bugs, just that they're bigger.

For example, our fruit flys are the size of a teensy dot. The fruit flies I've seen here are the size of 10 teensy dots. I guess it's the little things that endear you to a place. I'm not joking - I like it better this way, they're easier to spot.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wait until you're down in fl. and run into a palmetto or whatever they're called. they look like HUGE roaches and they fly!
-n

Byagi said...

She's right, you know. The bugs just get bigger and bigger. Imagine what it's got to be like for people in Brazil. They can ride around on fruit flies.