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07-31-2009, 07:30 PM
I lived in Japan for over 14 years and never saw either one of these. Of course I was not looking.
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04-21-2011, 05:50 PM
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Sorry for bumping an old thread, but how common are some of these insects? I can accept some of them, deal with others, but that giant spider completely freaks me out! If I'm in a city, like say Tokyo, in a typical apartment . . . how likely am I to come across our many-legged friends here? I'm really hoping they are very rare and not commonplace, but please . . . someone tell me, because if there's spiders bigger than my hand that are commonly walking about I may cry |
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04-21-2011, 07:19 PM
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04-22-2011, 05:38 AM
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At the in-laws, we`ve encountered a few massive spiders, but the gekkos tend to eat them all before they get that big. (Gekkos live in their house. Much cuter to see a tiny gekko running across the floor than a spider or cockroach. They also don`t carry disease or eat people food like mice, so yay!) I have yet to see a single one of those massive hornets. I`m absolutely terrified of them and am indeed on the look out. But not even one so far after 13 years. The mosquitoes are what drive me crazy. I hate them, and they spawn in clouds here. ARGH. My husband considers the little stink bugs mortal enemies now, and will go out of his way to kill them if at all possible. I guess one of them crawled into his pants once long ago, and his crotch stunk of bug for a week afterward. |
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04-22-2011, 01:26 PM
Ah, thank you John and Nyororin for your replies
I'm somewhat glad that a lot of these aren't common, although still not happy about the ammount of spiders, but as spiders are pretty common here too I suppose there's not much difference . . . and 8-10 centimetres is less than what I envisioned after seeing these photos and reading these posts, at least, lol! Still, the geji-geji are the creepiest things I've ever seen >_< What are the 'stink bugs'? I've heard of them on some dubbed anime, assumed they were made up creatures or euthemisms, I never realised it was a real type of insect. You know the more I read about Japan the luckier I feel to be in the UK . . . no earthquakes, and no geji-geji, lol. |
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