Don't bug me? It is the end of days!

[Andie]

LOL Richard. I love your stories.

Gonna show my country roots here and say insects don't really bother me. Skeeters are a bit annoying but usually I ignore the insects and they do the same for me. Occasionally a beetle will fly into my arm while I'm driving with the windows down or I'll have to carry a cricket out of the house. Guess I'm just lucky.

[RICHARD]

It just may be the end of friggin days and not a moment too soon!

I was back in my yard again and watering the plants this morning.

I was by the fig tree, spying the fruit and getting ready to make my approach... The tree sits a few feet from the wall that divides the properties.

The concrete block wall is the 'highway' for cats that use it to get back and forth! I have to runch down because I am a little taller than the wall and do not want to alert the neighbors that I am harvesting their tree.

The branches are on my side to technically, the fruit can be picked, but I don't want to tick them off and maybe have them trim the tree branches off the wall.

I approach the wall and see two scarab beetles buzzing around the area!

AHA!

THey won't sneak up on me now!

I slowly reach toward the closet branch and the effing thing almost EXPLODES in a flurry of activity, I take about three steps back and try to figure out what just happened.

It might have been a feral cat but all my pals are on the poch and this thing was JUMPING down along the top of the fenceline toward the street.

I took a step around the camper and realized it was a squirrel!!!!

I guess we both scared the crap out of each other - good thing I went to the BR before I went out there!!!

A few days bak I noticed a huge fig that had been halfway eaten and I thought my competition was a bird!!!!!

This is the end of days...........Not only are insects scaring the poop outta me, Now, I am competing for food with squirrels.

[lvpets2002]

Oh my my Richard your stories just keep getting better & better.. Them sqirrels are more than likley to steal all of your figs & leave you with nothing..

[Barbara]

I do not even want to think about bugs this size: but, about end of the world:
There was a lady here who met a giant spider in her garage. She was so scared and tried to flee and fell and broke her wrist. Now she was trying to sue the facility management of the place as they should have cleaned out the spider. But a rather higher court decided spiders are a normal risk of life and you can sue nobody.
While I totally can understand that nobody wants to meet giant scarabs or big hairy spiders I also think we have to live with them