I’ve been in Japan for over a decade and I’m still not used to Japanese bugs. Insects in England, perhaps with the exception of wasps, are pretty tame to what Japan has. Actually, Japanese mushi aren’t really dangerous, they are just different to what I grew up with, and that makes them an unknown quantity. Perhaps my Australian readers will laugh at these examples, but even the little guys in these photos make me jump back into a defensive position.
Without a doubt, cockroaches make me shiver the most even though I’m regularly chasing them around the house with a can of Goki Jet Pro. These guys though are something of a rarity, at least I hadn’t seen them in my own house until this year. I assume the first is a caterpillar, and the picture below shows some lizardy-type creature that was scurrying across the ceiling before I trapped it in a shoebox.
For the animal rights activists among you, you’ll be glad to know I brushed the caterpillar out the front door, and released the lizard back into the wild (the little playground near our house).
