Bodacious Bugs

So I rescued a bug yesterday. Every year in spring, our building gets these... I think maybe it's some sort of beetle, but slender... black and orange... and they (hatch?) arrive before Michigan's weather is comfortable, so the lot of them try to move into the building I work in. I like the buggers. And I know not everybody does, so when I find them too far from the door, I catch them and take them outside. It disgruntles them... they resist... but surely if they understood the other option was death by squashing or death by starvation, they would appreciate my efforts... Anyway, they inspired today's post.


Beautiful Bugs

I really love butterflies...

And moths...

One of the things I love about moths... in fact it makes me sort of love them more than butterflies, is that furry antennae thing...

 Luna Moth--isn't she gorgeous?













Blechy Bugs

Leech

just... ick... nuff said.  I have waded through streams that left me with a leech or two and... ick.

I am a bit funny about slugs. The black ones don't gross me out until they pass about 3 inches in length, but the off colored ones are really disturbing.

Tomato hornworm...
 *shivers*

first time I saw one of these, it was sucking the juice out of the stem of a formerly healthy tomato plant...  This picture doesn't show the horns, but it is a good shot of the (disgusting) thick legs.  The sucker I found was about 5 inches long... no joke...



Badass Bugs

I confess to thinking this is almost a teddy bear... he is precious... (yeah, I know a good number of you are just freaking out) it didn't say the type... just a moth...

Is this not the most kickass, wicked (as in cool, not as in mean) moth you ever saw?

 Isn't this freaky?  It's just a moth, but it totally looks like an animal face... I LOVE this!

So I hadn't been in Michigan long the first time I saw one of these... walking up my pant leg... but the cool factor outweighed any freaking out...

And I once saw a picture of one of these that caught a humming bird... that scared me... but at the same time... aren't they COOL?  I guess I can forgive scary for a little coolness factor...








Barely Bugs... okay, NOT bugs, but they are BURROWERS and I LOVE them... erm... us... so I'd love it if you'd visit us sometime (this is my writing group, btw), and Burrowers blog at Burrowers, Books and Balderdash...

These are some of my favorite people on the planet (would BE my favorite, it there weren't a few missing). We are a batch of bodacious babes and a bloke...

And I wish you all a fabulous weekend!!!


(HA!  and this was 600 posts... so that's something... not sure WHAT, but something...)