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Living in the woods in Michigan… other than 17 different species of mosquitoes…we often play with the fireflies, hunt for crickets, attempt to catch butterflies, and chase dragonflies. We have several “bug catchers” to hold a beastie while we examine it before letting it continue on it’s journey.
I’ve always wanted to see fireflies, we don’t get them in Australia.
In Florida, some people refer to those big brown cockroaches as Potato Bugs, maybe to make them seem less scary!
Ohhhhhhhhh, that reminds me….I need to get something ready for our invasion of Fire Ants….we always get them in the summer. Not fun, not fun at all.
My 13 is posted, I do hope you can stop by sometime if you have time today. It’s 13 catch phrases I really like. Have a glorious Thursday!!
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You make me feel grateful – our garden is covered in ants, but that’s nowhere near as bad as fireants.
Right now we are inundated with stink bugs. This is the first time we’ve ever had these things. We also sometimes get little red mites in early spring though this year we seem to have been spared those.
I love the picture of the little one with the gloves on the feet!
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She was so pleased with herself 😀 We’ve been trying to find ways of going outside without being eaten and she thought it was a brilliant idea!
that caterpillar is amazing looking!
We’ve had a few as big as a finger, you can really see why it’s a Dreaming spirit – definitely not ordinary.
OMG I’d have nightmares knowing some of those critters were nearby lol
Fun post though! Happy T13
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Aside from 9 and 10, this post makes me glad I don’t have a garden, lol.
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We HAD baby rabbits in our yard until a few days ago when my dogs found the nest. Drives me crazy.
Have a great Thursday!
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We get a few of the same critters that you do in our garden. We also get little garter snakes.
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We get some snakes, but we don’t know if they’re pythons or dangerous so we have to play it safe. I love snakes, one day I’m going to get one as a pet.
Ahh that’s the caterpillar from your header. Have you heard of the hatapillar. He supposibly is found on WA’s tuart trees. I’d love to find one. Once they outgrow their skin they bundle it up and put it on the head. As they grow the stack of old skin hats grows until they have a tower of hats on their head. Here i just googled it for you http://holophusicon.blogspot.com/2008/05/better-know-insect-mad-hatterpillar.html
We get milipedes, slater bugs (which were called ‘curlies’ in Canberra) and the worst is the earwigs (also called ‘nippers’) I am scared of them as I heard their bite is very painful!
Occasionally we see ‘Billipedes’ – our name for this multi-legged creature that shows up now and then. No idea what it is really. Soft legs, long legs, lots of them!
I don’t know if it’s weird to have a favourite sort of caterpillar, but this is mine. However I didn’t know it was called a Yeperenye. That sounds so much better than “Fat spiky tailed caterpillar with the fake eyes”! I always get really excited when I find one – much to my kids’ amusement! Thank you for teaching me its real name.
Scientifically they are a type of hawkwing moth caterpillar. Yeperenye is actually an Aboriginal name for them, Yeperenye is one of the important dreaming spirits in Alice Springs. So probably no-one else will know what that is, but I like acknowledging that they are an important part of that culture, it seems more appropriate than just another species of hawkwing moth.
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