Our big (teeming jungle of a) backyard

Blazam, panafools! You know, we’ve talked snakes. And we’ve talked spiders. And we’ve talked snakes and spiders in such a way that you all might be forgiven if you thought Panama was infested with the things. Especially because it is. But it’s also infested with a lot of other cool stuff. Like, I don’t know…this BLUE FROG CARRYING TWO TADPOLES ON ITS BACK!:

That’s right: blue frogs. Here’s that same picture again, just to drive the point home:

I bet the frog would taste like blueberries. Julia bet it would taste like poison. She was right.

Anyway, to review, in addition to snakes and spiders, there are blue frogs. We also have gigantic beetles:

And your requisite camouflage-capable lizards:

Beetles and lizards=mostly harmless. Harmful, on the other hand, are the spindly caterpillars which took over one of the trees that the hammock hangs from:

(When alerted to their presence, our host grandfather Manuel made a torch and burned them alive. I got the impression he´d had a nasty run in before...)

Also potentially painful, I suppose, were the wasps carrying larvae on their backs that started to horde on a tree right outside the back door:

 

But they moved on without incident.

And let´s not forget the scorpions, which live in the cracks in the walls and only come out at night:

No one we have talked to here has been bitten by a spider. Almost half of the people have had a run in with a scorpion. Pretty scary stuff, I know. But, if you want to talk about real, heart-stopping, palm-sweat-inducing, makes-you-believe-that-pure-evil-does-exist terror, try looking into the face of a...

...wait on it...

FUZZY BABY DUCK!!!!

 

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Addendum: Melissa and I now agree that visiting you at your site would not be a good idea. I´m going to have nightmares about that caterpillar.

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We just found this spider on our kitchen counter. After it jumped and
tried to kill me, we imprisoned it in a plastic butter container.
During the process of securing it with plastic wrap and a rubber band,
we accidentally killed it. So, the image shows the legs wrapped under
it, but they were really twice as long (or more) as they look in the
photo, which made this guy really scary! The body was just under an
inch long, and was brown with broad black stripes on one section, and
black with brown stripes on the opposing section.

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Very Good photography I love to watch wild life photography I like that lizards pics she is really looking very dangerous. I think that type of lizards mostly toxic in nature.

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These pictures are so awesome. Thanks for sharing. Glad I stumbled by for a peak.
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