I just got stung by a tiny wasp while watering my rooftop jungle this morning. Very painful and my hand swelled up within minutes. And that's just after my leg got scratched during a bike ride and the resulting wound infections still not having healed completely 18 days later, despite two full courses of different antibiotics prescribed by the Lamma Clinic.
Well, feeling better now, just one of the many things you take in your stride while living here, so close to raw, mostly still wild and untouched nature. We love and enjoy it, but we're (usually) careful outside our homes. But you don't need to leave your Lamma home to make some close and potentially painful encounters with the local wildlife. Our wild dogs and boars are shy, rarely seen and never seem to attack people and the occasionally pretty big pythons usually stay outside while occasionally strangling a wandering small pet, but staying away from humans of all sizes.
But one lady spotted 4 other snakes on her recent morning run, they've become so common these days that the
Lamma Snake Sightings Facebook group has become very active again this spring.
There's often a veritable zoo of small, but dangerous critters setting up home in our houses, balconies, rooftop gardens and especially G/F patios and gardens. They seem to manage to get into most flats here, despite screens, poison, etc. And we're not even talking about the harmless house mates many of us tolerate or at least ignore, like geckos and cockroaches and little spiders.
Let's swap the best home wildlife stories (and pictures, of course!), to let all our Lamma Newbies, often unfamiliar with living close to nature after spending so long living in cities, know a bit about the often very real dangers facing them even at home:
Snakes, centipedes, wasps, spiders and, most common and probably worst of all, mosquitoes!
Here's a quote from long-time forum member Tigger:
"I had an enormous spider that once lived in my flat (think the cats finally got him) that I named Benjamin.
This spider used to freak my friends out when he made an appearance on the living room wall. I used to find it highly amusing to introduce him as 'Benjamin my pet spider' to my city dweller mates. 
"
A lady tried to get rid of a centipede on her balcony and it accidentally fell down her top! She ripped off her T-shirt quickly and exposed herself unintentionally to a passing dog walker.
A Lamma youngster stepping on a potentially deadly Banded Krait snake in their garden or finding a bright-green Bamboo Pit Viper hanging off a tree in their garden, not even mentioning the many places inside or around our flats where our very wide variety of snake species can be found.
Huge Huntsman Spiders waiting quietly for live prey in dark stairwells.
Stepping out of the shower, grabbing a towel and a huge centipede dropping out onto my bare shoulder, my own experience I'll always remember.
Tell us your experiences of Lamma's wildlife inside your home, including garden, balcony and rooftops, please.
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