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Originally Posted by lemonlauren  Every-Bug-From-Your-Nightmares... I've still seen a handful of different new bugs that FREAK MY GUTS OUT... Lauren & Nikko |
I can relate. When I moved to South Africa I had to learn a whole new compendium of dangerous bugs...and snakes, too. I lived in California most of my life and poisonous snakes there have an early warning system...rattles. Here, they are sneaky...and legion. There is the boomslang (tree snake) that is green like a tree and drops out of the trees onto patios...and people! The Cape Cobra hangs around buildings looking for rats and mice, but will bite animals and people, too. They are territorial and the same cobra has been removed on numerous occasions from front steps of the building where my husband used to work!
The spiders here are terrifying...the baboon spider is a shiny, hairy black thing about the size of a toddler's hand, has fangs about a centimetre long, and feeds on mice and small birds. Very poisonous. The rain spider is reputed to be harmless, but it looks like a cross between a daddy long legs and a hairy wolf spider, is as big as the palm of an adult's hand, and runs like the wind!!
Like you, I have a man come spray for bugs regularly!! And, despite our large landscaped garden, we haven't seem any snakes in the 5 years I've been here. But I know they are out there!!