Found this doosy on my patio this afternoon. It’s almost 3 inches long and dead on MY patio. Sorry for the bad photograph. Two boys were trying to run off with it so I made them wait while I took a quick picture before they tossed it in some poor little girl’s hair.

My eyes refused to believe it was a bug until I got closer. Alas, a bug it was. I thought the spider that almost crawled into my hair the other day was bad… I wouldn’t have recovered if this had fallen in my lap while I was sitting, or god forbid, eating out there.

I may never sit on my patio again.