What's that Bug?
My wife is teaching our daughter to capture bugs and put them outside. I am more of the stomp-first-ask-questions-later school of thought. If this is my biggest sin (it isn’t) I hope I have other karmic brownie points that will keep me from being reincarnated as something that ends up flattened by a sneaker.
On occasion, the girls have captured a crawlie between an upside down drinking glass and a sheet of paper, and then we carry it over to the computer and go to What’s that Bug. It’s a way cool website maintained by two photography teachers in Los Angeles. People send in pictures of bugs they’ve found that are then researched, identified and posted on the site. During the summer, the site gets about 100 letters daily.You can search by generic descriptive terms, yellow beetle, for instance. Other cool sections include Carnage (squished bugs) and Bug Love (you guess).
Posted by Jefferson Kolle | Categories: Yard & Garden | Permalink
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Help please, everyone thinks I am exaggerating. I found on my deck a green spider that resembled a tarantula. No one has ever seen anything like this. I was too quick to step on it since it scared the heck out of me. It didn't move fast as spiders usually do. But nothing remains of it so I can't prove what I saw, but I know I saw it!!
We have a brown and yellow flying insect - almost transparent wings (2 sets, I think) with bronze colored veins, wingspan 1 to 1-1/2 inches, body long and slender yellow and brown, with a three or four inch long (I don't know what it's called)appendage from the tail - very slender (like the legs of a daddy-long-legs, but not segmented). It's crawling around the damp garden, in footprints left by an errant calf.