Friday, 31 October 2014

Creepy Crawlies ...

The  clement climate of Tuscany, as well as producing excellent grapes, produces some interesting beasties too.

Pick your favourite from praying mantis, hornet and scorpion!

For insect lovers, I'd love to say "no insects were harmed in the making of this blog post" - but that just wouldn't be true - especially in the hornet and scorpion area ... (Marijke might approve!)

The mantis casts a horror-film shadow on the door jamb
When this hornet started up a few days ago, I thought someone was operating a strimmer!   Today it reappeared - it had apparently been in the house for days ...  It was very big (though the Euro isn't as big as it used to be!)
... and this scorpion today was just too close to our bed for comfort.

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