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Article: The Jungle Bug; A Nighttime Search for Katydids in the Far Reaches of Ecuador
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 9, 1988
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I've been always afraid of the dark. As a boy, I kept to a set
pattern of going to bed: After turning the lights out, I would run
across the room and leap into my bed, high enough so that the
monsters underneath didn't grab my feet and drag me down. When I was
a young man and had to walk the dog at night, I always went out with
running shoes. It was part of my strategy to be inside in a flash if
someone jumped from behind that old maple.
So it was with some surprise that I found myself agreeing last
February to venture out with a group of entomologists into the
Ecuadorean jungle-in the middle of the night.
My wife and I were dining at a small restaurant in Puerto
Misahualli, about 75 ...