Bugs, that is.
We are doing a nature study on backyard bugs, in hopes Mikro will become fascinated rather than terrified thereby...
Coolest resident so far of the family bug jar: Greenie the Katydid, who we released today after 4 days of residency:
And after I scooped her out of the jar and set her under the rose bushes where Kevin found her, we quickly found our new study subjects. Two crickets, one male, one female, and a tiny grasshopper. It would be pretty neat if we wound up with cricket babies... But I doubt it. They apparently lay eggs in the dirt, and so far, our cage only has greenery and water. We've been feeding them leaves and peaches. Interesting facts: Their poop is called frass, and they make a frassing mess. The female cricket is the one with the long phallic appendage, which is called, I think, an ovicepter. Guess cricket boys get to have ovicepter envy? Grasshoppers have much shorter antennae, proportionally, than crickets do. Who knew?
And who knew playing with bugs would cause me to seriously covet a good macro lens...
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