I just fell in love with a fly...

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Unfuckinbelievable.

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First time for everything I guess?!

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Just a regular run of the mill fly.

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He captured my heart tho.

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He just landed on my pants and it looked like he was cleaning his head with his front legs.

Then he rubbed his back legs together.

Then he leaned forward and took off flying.

And that was it, I fell in love.

He looked like he was having a lot of fun.

Just livin' that fly life.

If he'd been on my skin though, I prolly would have hated him just like all the rest.

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So I just saw two flies mating. They fly around WHILST mating.

Wait, do flies mate??

Okay, I looked it up, they totally do.

Wow. And it looked just like in the pictures?!

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The female fly flies around whilst the male just sorta hangs on back there.

I dunno how I feel about this...

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I shouldn't have looked... twice.

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Well, I had to do a double-take! It looked like two flies right on top of each other, so it got my attention.

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I don't think I've ever seen two flies mating. I've seen other winged creatures mating.

Never seen a bird mating.

I wanna see that!

Wait, do birds mate??

Okay, I looked it up, they totally do.

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Flies are pretty normal, but I have seen some WILD shit since the start of spring... it's continued on this weird barrage of animals that shouldn't even exist in this geographical location, and way huge amounts of regular typical creatures like wasps and whatnot.

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Saw a red firefly, saw a blue firefly.

Saw a miniature version of a weta, which should only exist in New Zealand.

Saw some other creature that shouldn't exist here but I can't remember what it was. I think it was something Asian.

There are lots of wasps, more than usual. Lots of lizards, more than usual. More snakes than usual.

Oh, I saw a weird thing that looked like a red ant on the upperbody but had a yellow/black striped abdomen. Not a red velvet ant, and no photos/searches match what I saw. It was either a wingless wasp/bee or a weird exotic ant.

So the uptick in typical creatures is most likely related to the temperatures/climate, but these other creatures... either they've been here all along and they're just rare, or they hitched a ride in on a cargo container or something.

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Also have a houseplant which has produced a conjoined leaf. Two leaves conjoined. I have done extensive searching about this specific type of common houseplant producing a twin leaf, and there is nothing to be found anywhere.

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Saw a miniature version of a weta, which should only exist in New Zealand.

This is what perplexes me the most.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...apunga.jpg

It truly was a weta, my dudes.

Just a really, really small one (comparatively).

At first I thought maybe it was a Mormon cricket from the scourge in Texas earlier in the season but it didn't bear any resemblance to one of those.

It was a friggen weta and I can't find any evidence that they're supposed to exist in this part of the world.

And get this shit...

The weta was just sitting on the welcome mat, at first it was assumed dead, thing didn't move for a solid 5 min. after being spotted and ogled at and traipsed around.

Turned my back on it for a minute while I looked it up and tried to ID it...

Went back to look at it was gone without a trace.

There were NO other creatures around.

It was weird as hell man.

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And who the hell ever heard of BLUE and RED fireflies?

I looked it up, they do exist.

The blue one is the rare one, and it shouldn't be in THIS part of the country.

So again, my theory about the temperatures (El Nino??) leads me to believe this is the reason for the insect weirdness and the other creature population numbers.

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The weta was just sitting on the welcome mat

The idea of a "Welcome" mat in a place where any unknown cars in the driveway get met with eyes behind parted blinds and shotguns in hand...



Ah well, it's the little things.

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I love my neighbors.

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I should modify it to say "We come" to go along with my "fuck around and find out" red porch bulb...