Category: Insects

Insects

Squint Like Clint

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Dawn

Sunrise

Squinting like Clint

Praying Mantis bouldering on a Mazda wheel

Aye Aayyeee Aye Yayeee
Woe be to me
There’s a dawg in the grass
Woe be to me
That dawg comes in the house
Woe Woe be to me
Ooo Aye yaye yaye Aayyeee Aye Yayeee!

Jake

DAAAAAaaaaaawwwg!!!! NOOOOooooooo! AAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

That’s what my therapist told me to do. However, the dawg is still here!

Trippin’

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Obligatory cat photo

Grasshoppah

“Like wow, man! I see all kinds of groovy colors. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Strawberry fields forever. I smell incense and peppermints. I feel like flowers and beads waving in the summer breeze, making me feel fine. Like I’m In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida at 25 or 6 to 4. I’m being covered by a purple haze giving me an excuse to kiss the sky.”

Spunk. Those are not magic mushrooms on that box making you halucinate. Have you been looking at my playlist?

Yellow Yellow Yellow & Yellow

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Duo Cheezo

When Glenda eats cheese, she licks as much out or more of the dish as she eats. I put the dish I use to cover the cheese in front of Glenda to catch her mess and put it back into the bowl when she’s done. Loki figured out he could eat Glenda’s spillover instead of butting in on Marble’s cheese. When Marble was finished, Silver joined Loki.

Zipper Season

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High winds from this storm last night broke a huge branch off Teagan’s tree, pulled the lower powerline to within inches of our fence, and the lines started arching in the trees. My neighbor alerted me of the problem early this morning. Fire department staff stood out and watched the cottonwoods south of the broken branch catching fire and going out from the arcing powerline into late afternoon before the tree trimmers showed up to cut the tree back.

The branch is on the right. It’s hard to see between the irrigation ditch and our fence in the bamboo. The branch is about 12 inches (30.48 cm) thick.

A zipper spider blocked one of the deck doors last night. She had packed up and moved on when I checked on her this morning.

Closeup of a zipper spider between Iceberg Rose and the corner of the deck.

Bromiliad

Mid-morning

Skinny Mantis

Spunk grooming Marble

Sunset