Last night Hubby helped me with the paper route, thank God he did to or I would still be stuck in the distribution parking lot.
Last night after pulling into the parking lot I feel something on my leg and it feels as if it is stinging me. I announce very loudly to my husband, "Something is on me!" I start brushing my leg and grabbing for the car door. Finally I get the dang door open and jump out. My husband is looking at me like, "what the hell?" I immediately repeat, also very loudly, "there was something on me and it bite or stung me! It's in the car!" After some looking around husband found it and swatted it out of the car. It was at least 3 inches long, big ass pinchers and antannea's as long as it's freaking body. The picture to the left is the closet thing I could find online that looked like what had been on my leg. Florida is known for it's strange bugs, but even my husband had never seen a bug like the one from last night. He grew-up here. After much hibby-gibbying and freaking out as my husband shooed the thing into a bush we went inside the DC. I told my friend Joyce and her future son-in-law about this bug. She had one on top of her car tonight. Brian (future son-in-law) informed me it was called, "helldabug" or "hellabug" or whatever. He also informed me it was great for fishing. I told him that "hella-whatever-bug" was a perfect name as it looked like it came straight out of the bowels of hell, and who in the hell would ever touch that damn thing to put it on a hook was insane. He told me to google it. I tried. Came up lacking as I'm sure I do not have the correct spelling or it is not the true name for that damn critter. Yes, I had my camera phone with me, but with all the hibby-gibbying, squilling, and jumping around...taking a picture was not at top of my list of things to do at the moment. Running was. The rest of the night I kept feeling like something was crawling on me. I can deal with bugs as long as they ARE NOT on me or bigger than a cigarette butt. I hate and loave anything with long legs, putting spiders at the top of my list. I have to tell you that for a 2 month period I was a pest exterminator for Spencer's pest control. They loved me there for some crazy reason, must have been the fact I was the only woman in a group of 7 men, but after being there for a short time, everything I ate tasted like bug spray. I quit. Couldn't imagine what effects that would have on a person's health long term.
I'm going to ask Brian tonight for the correct spelling of that bugs name to see if I can get a better picture of the thing. The picture I have is of a "Giant Water Bug" Although the pinchers and body look exactly like the critter from last night it does not have the long legs or the long antannea's my critter had.
I should find pictures of the Giant spiders we have here. Hubby forgot to mention this fact when talking me into moving here. At the time I was more concerned about hurricanes. There are spiders here the size of your hand. I have had run-ins with a few of these suckers a couple of times. I'll save those stories for when I find the pictures to post to go with them......