Critters From Yesterday

A couple times during the season horse fly's pay a visit and are none too friendly.

I'm reminded of a story from West Africa when a friend and I were paddling our six boarder on the Volta River. As a general rule things are bigger in Africa and we were accosted by a horse fly at least two times bigger than this guy. I was able to deflect his attack and yelled to Charlie to look out and no more than a moment later heard a scream . Looked back and the blood was flowing already.




Took a chunk of meat out close to an eighth inch in diameter and the swelling was immediate reaching the size of a silver dollar.



Hurt like hell and sorry to be this way but happy it was him and not me. The eyes on this insect are something else. Click on the picture to see what I mean.













This spider was found on this flower of a weed almost matching the color. The spider survived the meat eater did not.