The Bug Parade Continues

Here are some more of pictures of insects, identified and otherwise...


Dragon Fly!


Big Moth!


But what is this? A coworker suggested centipede. Could be. Its body was about 8-10 centimeters long, but it took up a lot more room with those long legs and feelers. Can anyone identify it for me?

Grasshopper?

This guy was on the Tom-the-Toad road. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a well framed shot off in the dark before he jumped away. Is it a grasshopper? I guess so... It was about two to two and a half inches long. They make 'em big down here in the sub tropics...

Leaping Lizards!

Gecko! I Saw this guy outside the school and snapped a picture for you gecko afficianados out there, before he blazed off.

More Remarks On Unremarkable Animals

Another rainy night and the dumb flutter bugs came back again, but the geckos didn’t come to my rescue this time. Instead it was Marc who did the killing with an electric bug-zapping racket. I prefer the geckos because they don’t leave the carcasses lying around on the ground.

When I went into our office’s decommissioned bathroom-cum-recycling room, I saw a gecko on the wall and got my camera out and snapped a picture before it scurried up the wall to the window frame and out of sight.




The only other gecko I’ve seen in the past few weeks is a dead one that crawled into a sign and died there. The sign is beside the front gate of my school. The little lizard’s body has withered so that you can see what appears to be it’s little ribs. I took a picture of it, which looks kind of cool. Some flowers that are in front of the sign are reflected on the plastic pane forming a death wreath around the corpse. It is a little disgusting of course, so I’ve placed it below this post with a warning, so don’t look if you don’t think you’d like to see the desiccated corpse of a formerly cute lizard.

I see a lot of frogs on the road to my apartment, but unfortunately, few of them are alive and three-dimensional. Which is to say that road is pockmarked with Tom-the-Toads who didn’t make it across. Every week there is at least one fresh squashing, and because I walk up and down this road every day, I get to see the frogs devolve from positively disgusting exploded amphibians to a leathery mat to a mere grey blotch.

I will spare you the gore and just show you a happy guy sitting on the side of the road, perhaps contemplating his chances of making it to the other side.


pretom toad

WARNING: Slightly Gross Picture

This poor fellow crawled into the sign in front of my school and died, at least 2 weeks ago. Now everyday as I walk onto the school grounds I'm confronted with a grim reminder of mortality...

Back to the Motherland

Well, I've got my ticket! I will finally be back in Canada for a visit after nearly 2 and a half years out of the country!

I'm arriving in Vancouver on the 4th of July and will be going from there to various places in Alberta. So if you live in Western Canada and you want to receive a visit from yours truly, now is your chance!

It is a short window though... I'll be heading back to Taiwan from Vancouver on the 21st.