I've lived in Texas several times in my life. My dad was stationed at Lackland AFB in San Antonio when I was a kid. One day he took us to see part of the tarmac on the flight line that was almost completely covered in scorpions. Thousands of them.
Going camping in Arizona one time, driving after dark to get to our camping site on a Friday night, we saw the back road covered in tarantulas. As far as we could see. Again, thousands of them.
One bad experience with critters was in Missouri, camping in the middle of the state somewhere. Walking through the woods to get to a lake near our camp site, I managed to step into a nest of baby chiggers. Red, the size of a period on this screen. Not thousands, but millions of them! They were all over my shoes, socks and pants legs. I went back to the camp site, stripped naked and washed off with bleach. I managed to get most of them kilt but still got several irritating, itching bites nonetheless.
My worse time was in Utah, camping at the state park on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. Everything was fine until dusk when we started frying some pork chops in a pan on the stove. The mosquitoes showed up. Millions of them. All over my wife and I and the meat. Inside my ears, nose, mouth. They were so thick, it felt like they could suffocate you. We immediately broke camp and high-tailed it up the freeway into the mountains and stopped at a pullout to spend the night. We each were covered with bites that itched like crazy all night.
But I have to say that Florida has more irritating insect and animal critters of anywhere I've lived. They've even got a weed called fire weed that burns like someone is holding a flame to your skin. It's all over the place.
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Have you ever seen walking catfish?
They will walk across the road to the other canal in the thousands.
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