New Zealand Giant Weta
A year ago I confessed to blogosphere that I was scared of spiders. Over the space of three months, I willed myself to tolerate them, and now actually like them in a warped kind of way. You can read my journey from considering spiders eight legged freaks, to eight legged furry friends here, here, and here.
Confession time [...]

I am once again made slightly uncomfortable by how disturbing real-life creatures can be.
The Amazonian Giant Centipede (Scolopendra gigantea), is the largest existing species of centipede in the world. It grows to over 35 cm in length and has the strength of a small snake. Here’s the freaky part… it catches bats in mid-flight and eats them.
Yes indeed, and to [...]

In a recent post of Paisley Jade’s she commented about her husband’s (that’s me) over-exuberance when using flyspray on wasps. Yes, I admit I have a slight dislike (understatement of the year) for wasps… Do you blame me? Being chased and stung by angry paper-wasps as a kid, and then having a stinging wasp trapped in my wetsuit!
I came [...]