The scorpions are back. Ready the salt canisters.
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More Bugs
It rained an hour ago. I got up to make tea and realized these were all over the floor. I dont even know where they’re coming in and i dont care. Im going to bed. They’re crustaceans. When the moisture dries up, they’ll die.
The Cicadas and Katydids Arrive
The Annual Daddy Long Leg Porch Convention
Well, it is that time again. The daddy long legs have arrived and amassed as a cluster on the porch. Actually right this moment there are currently three clusters on the porch ceiling, stragglers gathered in my potted plants, and a number of them climbing up the walls of the house. Once they pick a …
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Insect Season
Well the insects are officially back in full force and because i dont free range my chickens its my responsibility to collect them all so my chickens can have some good protein. Every time its moist i collect them cup fulls of pill bugs. At night i collect the june bugs attracted to the porch …
Chicken Snacks
A typical day of collected insects and kitchen scraps for the chickens to munch on.
The Dung Beetles are back
I kept trying to examine Sili and Cashew’s turds while they were sick so i could gage what state of recovery they were in and the turds were just disappearing…all of them. it appeared that the dogs were going days without pooping. I knew this was not the case for what goes in must come …
Flight of the Junebugs
Every spring there comes a time when the june bugs wake up from their winter hibernation and arise by the thousands from a single patch of brush behind the house right at dusk. They do this nightly until they mate, die off, and make way for the next generation which emerge in the form of …
The Ant Colony Living in my Car
It happened after a huge rain storm. It was 3:30 in the morning when i got in the car to go to work. It was dark and i was barely awake. I would not have seen the vast amount of movement when i opened the door to throw my bags and jacket in. Similarly, it …
Cicada
I had been known to fry grasshopper occasionally when i wasn’t feeding it to the chickens. I usually had to smash the grasshoppers to catch them but if it seemed especially intact or i managed to catch it alive i would save it for human consumption via the skillet. The grocery shortage of 2020 had …