Thank you Janet, I've been amazed and enthralled by your IDs since the beginning. It was good of Lin to remind us to thank you and to appreciate what a gift you are to the community.
If I could bring myself to get closer to the multitude of bugs around here, I'd give you some of those to ID.
I do have a bug story. We were in Belize on the western side very near the Guatemala border. It's quite tropical, high canopy jungle where it hasn't been disturbed and low scrub jungle where it has. We were in an agricultural area, pastures all around us. One night we got home late and decided to dump the RV tanks in the dark, never a good idea. We're out there with the flashlights when my light goes over my partner's shoe and I see this huge spider on the laces. I'm trying not to freak her out so I tell her stamp her foot, over and over. She's getting nervous, she stamps and stamps and finally I tell her to just push that shoe off with the other foot and run. After we got over freaking out inside the RV with me making the spider larger with every telling, we went back out to finish and get her shoe. No sign of the spider. The next day I describe it to the groundsman and he said it was dangerous and good we didn't get bit. He said (and here is where I wonder if anything this horrid could be true) that this spider bites horses around the top of their hoof and lays its eggs. The eggs cause the whole hoof to rot and fall off. EWWWW... I've never forgotten that story, it still gives me the creeps. Could it be true?
