Feeling Bugged!

The last while, there seems to be more 'bugs' about.

We were at a local restaurant last evening and the owner clobbered a tarantula and carried it off the the garbage in the dustpan.  We had a similar creature in our living room 3 or 4 weeks ago.  I hit it with a pillow - it went defensive and curled up - I grabbed it with tongs and threw it off into the garden (the tarantulas here bite but are not deadly).

There seems to be a proliferation of caterpillars (nasty reaction if you touch them) - dragonflies (graceful and fascinating), butterflies (one landed on my leg yesterday while I was reading and just walked about for 5 or so minutes) - and the ever present black sticky bees (they don't sting but they insist on buzzing in your face and get stuck in your arm hair).  Not to mention the scorpion that likes to hide in the loops of the garden hose.

Then this morning a miniature walking stick climbed across my keyboard and up the computer screen.  Then there was this.

I thought it was a piece of gravel until it moved. Several legs - what appears to be a snout, and a little white thing on the other end that could be a tail.  Google images has no idea what it is (it said it was a leaf - a type of vegetation found on trees).  Getting a closer look, it seems the real thing is under all that stuff - almost transparent with a little ' nose'  - the stuff is like a house - sort of like a hermit crab!

Another amazing creature.