sybarites

I was just bitten by the biggest insect I have ever seen. I took off my jacket and started walking around when I felt a pinch on my finger. When I looked under my coat I saw a long brown something and dropped the coat. Out crawled a four or five inch long brown insect, which looked up at us gnashing it’s half-inch mandibles and waving it’s antennae for a few seconds. Then it spread its wings and flew towards us before veering off to land in a tree. I haven’t been able to find out what it was.

This was just after we saw our first Peruvian Hairless Dog.

Update: My aunt Carol discovered the identity of the insect. It’s a female dobsonfly. Since they spend most of their life as larvae in water, most people don’t know they exist from the United States to Northern Argentina. The ones in Peru are BIG.

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