I put a reminder on my shoes each night to check them for tarantulas and scorpions in the morning before wearing them. This was done at the suggestion of my eco-hotel, which only practices organic and natural pest control. Their explanation: the bugs were there first.
Mi casa es su casa.
I ain’t afraid uv snakes or toads, or bugs or worms or mice,
An’ things ‘at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
I’m pretty brave I guess; an’ yet I hate to go to bed,
For, when I’m tucked up warm an snug an’ when my prayers are said,
Mother tells me “Happy Dreams” an’ takes away the light,
An’ leaves me lyin’ all alone an’ seein’ things at night!
Poem by Eugene Field, Seein’ Things
Costa Rica’s position as a land bridge between the temperate north and the tropical south has given it a beguiling diversity of animal life… It’s also home to no fewer than 850 species of bird- more than the US and Canada combined- along with a quarter of the world’s known butterflies and thousands of moths, bees and wasps.
Quotation from The Rough Guide to Costa Rica