This post is just a short trip into our buggy experience.
We don't have pictures of every encounter, like when I took a shower with a cockroach (didn't notice until the end) or when Dylan got a beetle stuck between his toes, but we do have some other good ones.
Many things we didn't notice about the natural setting here until the North Branch Nature Center brigade came and just pointed so much out. This Rhinoceros beetle was on a fence that we walk by every day. It was huuuuge. Our bus drivers decided to pick it up and let it crawl on their hands, then pass it around before replacing it on the fence. Wacky.
This chichara (cicada) somehow made its way into our room and on one of our walls. They too are huge here! With this upgrade in size comes an upgrade in their grating volume. When more than one chicharas are sounding off it can feel almost deafening, our host father tells us its his music in the countryside – and it drives him crazy.
The most frightening bug we have encountered was this rather large spider at the library. Dylan was just mopping up after our cooking class, when he discovered that he had disturbed this monster. It looks like she is carrying a sack of eggs (at least I hope so...), she also looks like she is some weird mix between spider and turtle... By the way, she was really huge.
P.S. The Nicaraguans call this spider Pica Caballo, which means Horse Biter...
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