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gueribo
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the bugs of Baja
The "What's That Bug" website is a great place to have mysterious bugs identified. A search for Baja California yielded some interesting results. Have
any Baja bug photos to share?
https://www.whatsthatbug.com/?s=Baja+California
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DouglasP
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Nothing too out of the ordinary......except when they are in the casa! 
[Edited on 5-1-2023 by BajaNomad]
I like beer, better than most people.
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gueribo
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Not Baja but nearly. Southern California, crossing the road, just minding his own business . . .
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tehag
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Horse Bean Longhorned Beetle (Trachyderes mandibularis) About 6cm long not counting those "horns".
 Beetle-Horse-bean Longhorned-9974sm by tehagl, on Flickr
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Russ
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[Edited on 10-31-2018 by Russ]
[Edited on 5-1-2023 by BajaNomad]
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thebajarunner
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WHAT???
No VW pix yet?
You thread thieving trolls are losing your touch
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gueribo
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Russ, do you know what this one is?
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David K
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gueribo
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Thanks, David. That's a looker.
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gueribo
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Here you go . . .
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Lunch in San Felipe:
Playa Bonita RV Park:
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bajabuddha
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@stuck ~ That lunch in San Flip..... how'dja cook'em?
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Medium rare, with a lemon wedge and a splash of Tapatio.
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bajabuddha
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I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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bajaric
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No see Um:
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The critter pictured a few times above (most recently in David K's Post) is not a sun spider. This one is in the family Amblipygidae and goes by the
common name of whip spider or whip scorpion. They look like something out of a nightmare but are pretty harmless. They are related to scorpions and
spiders but are not venomous and don't have much of an attitude. In subtropical and tropical locations they can get very large and I have seen them
with a legspan larger than a dinner plate.
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They serve all kinds of bugs, fried and otherwise, on the waterfront in Singapore where all the nice restaurants are located.
They display them on panels
If you want to take a picture they charge you for the photo
Maybe some enterprising young dude could sell deep fried tarantula on the Malecon in San Felipe
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BajaMama
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I saw a whip spider (?) for the first time last week in Punta Chivato, at night with a flashlight in the bathroom of course. Thing looked like it had
twice the number of legs from the flashlight shadow. Wickedest looking bug I have ever seen!
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Yes, those whip tails are one of the scariest looking little critters. They get really big where I live near PV. Their bodies and pincers are crablike
and they move sideways like a crab as well.
They have no toxin and are quite shy, yet every Mexican has a story about how their tio or someone got bit by one and died :-)
I keep a dead one in a jar to show visitors so they don't freak out when they see one.
My neighbor once found an albino one in his bodega, snow white.
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The baddest bug in the jungle down here is the deer fly. Very aggressive and painful bite.
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