Its true, Nicaragua has its fair share of bugs & critters. Here’s a few pictures that I’ve taken of my housemates since we moved to San Juan del Sur about a year and a half ago.
These guys are very common here and get worse when it starts to rain. Luckily for us, for most people the sting is much like a bee, followed by numbness of tongue. You feel normal again a few hours later.
I pulled this guy out of my daughter's pony tail one day. It still gives me the heebie jeebies. From what I hear, these large spiders do not bite.
We have a lot of wasps where we live, these are the smaller ones. We also have fairly large red wasps. Lately since the rain, they have started building large hives.
This greenleaf grasshopper looked pretty cool on my screen door one day.
Stickbugs have great camouflage, but when its this large, they are pretty easy to spot below the arm of your chair.
These common grasshoppers are always around. At first Titus was scared of them, but now he enjoys torturing them with sticks to make them jump.
Beatles are the first thing to come once the first rains begin. These are about the dumbest creatures I've ever seen. They usually fly and land on there back, spending the rest of their life trying to turn back over.
Caught this wasp the other day eating a bee. Pretty crazy!
I had to ask whether these were flying aunts or termites. Turns out they are termites since their waist isn't cinched in. These are the second bug to come in plenty after the rains. They are "swarm termites".