Other Insects we have seen

Here is a perfect Brasilian Beetle. Notice he has Brasilian Green and Yellow colours. He is about 3/4 of an inch long.






Here is a black beetle in Judy's hand. Judy is fearless.




Here is a Barata (Cockroach)( Cucaracha in Spanish). He is about 3/4 of an inch long.





Now this is poop, about the size of a pea. When you see this you must be very very cautious.
Because this is the poop of a caterpillar that burns. They can give very serious burns just by crawling on you skin.





This is the monster who made such big poop. Can you see him? He has perfect camouflage. He is the same colour of the leaves in this bush in our front yard.




You can see himclearer in this pic.




Now you can see him for sure. He eats the leaves, stem and all. And he moves around the bush fairly quickly.




Here is another one.





As this ruler shows, he is over 3 1/2 inches long. He will make a huge white butterfly with an 8 inch wingspan.





An hour after that previous pic he had fallen to the ground and transformed into this beautiful caterpillar.





He crawled up the wall.




He was trying to get over the wall to freedom.





Here he is on top of the wall, uncertain whether to go over or not.




While he was exploring the outside of the wall someone was searching for him.




He went back inside and went along the bottom of the wall.






Chico was on the wall looking for more of these deadly monsters. It is a good thing Chico didn[t catch any of them because he could get a serious burn from them.




The caterpillar finaly made his way out the gate. Judy then pickied him up and took him to the forest nearby.




Here is another camouflage expert we saw in Poços de Caldas. Is it a leaf or an insect on Judy's hand?




It is a fascinating insect that looks like a leaf. As you can see it is almost 2 inches long.

From time to time, as we see more unique insects we will show them to you here.

The most common insect here is tiny mosquitos. Sometimes you cannot even see them but the leave a miserable itchy red spot on your skin. We use Johnson's Baby Oil, Mosquito Repellant to help ward off the little nasty bugs.

When we do get bitten we use CremeFenergan. We put a small dab on the bite and soon there is no more itch.


The other very common annoyance here is house flies. They come in all sizes and are very bothersome. We spray but they appear immune to anything accept fly swatters.



Photos by Urso Branco