Hi! I’m new to inat so you guys probably don’t know me very much but I’m very much excited to be here. I guess you can describe me as a bug-enthusiast (I hope I spelled it right). I love grasshoppers especially but I’ve also kept injured butterflies, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, roly-polys, beetl…

I once got a frog jumping on me, when I was a kid. Also, once, I remember, got a big wolf spider climb on me and get into my shirt. When I was a teenager, I got what I now know was a lichen mantis, jump on me. I was climbing a tree, and that crazy critter crawled on me. I used to believe mantises ar…

When I was younger I also remember trying to use some old mulch from a trash can for my garden and the mulch was filled with ants and somehow they got all over me-I was like covered in (thankfully! :sweat_smile: ) black ants. My older cousin was nearby and she ran up and started brushing me off. I g…

Welcome to iNaturalist, Carmen! :D One time, I went to walk on a trail with my dad. The sun was setting and somehow we ended up getting lost, which is really confusing, because we’ve walked this particular trail many times. We came to a clearing and saw a road ahead of us which meant we were really…

When I lived in South Africa, I used to stay in a little granny flat / outbuilding as temporary student housing. It was nice and cozy, though occasionally had other animals share our space. On one occasion a toad was found in my shoe, which I only found as I went to put the shoe on - I’d rather a t…

That’s so funny :sweat_smile: yeah mosquitoes are annoying. One time I woke up in the morning to a bunch of mosquito bites all over my face and I could hear a noise between a buzz and a squeak in my ear. It was a mosquito :roll_eyes: .

Here’s my cricket story (observation) . All I have to say is that you should watch out!

I’ve got a recent one (if not a very long one). I was in a wooded public park a couple weeks ago, and I was flipping logs to see what kind of animals or fungi I could find. There was a fairly large log propped up slightly against the trunk of a tree along one of the walking paths. I pulled it up and…

Equally, once I saw a tree in bloom infested with butterflies. I tried to climb it when I instantly started getting stinging ants all over me. But the worst of it, a few dared to go downstairs… and stung me there.

As a teen, I used to roam the island our Summer cottage was on. High hills made of bedrock with humid valleys in-between filled with spruce and some deciduous trees.The hills had an awesome view out to the open sea, and I used to hang out on top of them, take a nap occasionally, read a book. One tim…

That is so amazing-fortunately though it didn’t peck at your face :sweat_smile: Also, the dead hare must’ve been gross but sad at the same time.

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