You read that right. They got big bugs here. It may be that they also love Rubber Soul more in the Great State of Texas than they do elsewhere, but right now, I’m talking creepy-crawlies.
We recently got some plants for our terrace. They’re really nice; they add a bit of color.
- Country Livin’
But since then, we seem to be popular. Granted, I sit at this window all day and see all sorts of bugs go by: flies, bees, moths, ladybugs, and for some reason, a lot of hornets. I don’t know why, but there is clearly a wasps’ nest nearby. One of them got in here one morning, and I was not pleased.
I caught him and let him go, but you’d have thought I was wrangling a cobra the way I was sweating.
So why does this guy keep coming back? And can anyone tell me what he is?
- Godzilla!!!
He’s slow-moving and persistent. He first flew over and landed on the window. I pounded on it a couple of times (it’s double-paned) and he took off. The next day, there he was flying around, eventually landing right on the terrace. I watched him for a while then finally swept him off with a recently purchased Walmart broom, and he flew across the street. Not an hour later he was back.
He, or she, doesn’t seem interested in the plants, but maybe these little guys stuck to the windows are aphids and thus the appearance of ladybugs (who I like, everyone does), and then maybe this bruiser likes to eat them. I don’t know, but he’s big. At least, he’s big for a bug in the city.
Remember, I’m a New Yorker. I’ve seen cockroaches as big as rats, rats as big as cats, cats as big as dogs and, OK, fine those were mountain lions, but still. I’ve seen some nasties in my day – centipedes and ants and spiders of all sorts. Why is this guy bothering me? Cuz he’s a huge freaking beetle and I’m just blocks away from Downtown Dallas. Perhaps he came from a construction site across the way. Maybe he’s migratory and just likes the view. Maybe he was dumped in the sewer and someone spilled some radioactive ooze down there and he was trained by a humanoid rat to become a master of martial arts. We’ll see.
- Ultimate mastering comes not from the body, but from the mind.
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There are more important things to worry about tonight, namely beating the Phills. Go Yankees.
