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[realexplodingcat]

Tonight, my wife told me that the small green grasshoppers I try to catch each day are katy-dids.

KATY-DIDS!

Those vile creatures which torment me all night with the scraping see-saw motion of their legs, making the most horrendous squeaky door, fingernails on glass chirrups! Those vicious and evil bugs which fill my nightmares are actually tiny cute grasshoppery green bugs with long antennae.

Living in the country is changing me. I've become friends with bugs. I salute the black angus. I emulate a tree's emotions and energy each morning. I play with a hackey-sack. I eat stuff from the yard.

Okay, I don't willingly or knowingly eat grass or anything else that resembles it, but I'm pretty sure wife sneaks some of the yard clippings into our salads. Sure, she calls it ground ivy or chervil or garlic, but she also eats dandelions and I know those grow in the yard, so the rest probably does, too.

Anyhow, the yard is very odd. It seems to be creating new creatures. One such creature looks like a drab brown grasshopper, sounds like a locust, and has a second pair of wings which are velvety black with an orange stripe. Wife says it might be some kind of locust, but I'm fairly certain it's a Hyde type of creature. I hope the Jekyll aspect isn't a katy-did.

And the most wonderful thing of all--we have a cardinal! A beautiful scarlet specimen whose trilling song makes my heart soar with delight. Life is wonderful.

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[jkatj.livejournal.com]

I wish I could recapture the fascination with bugs that carried me through my early childhood. I wish I could see them as something other than "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah a buuuuuuuug!!" But the summer of the giant cicadas ruined all that for me. **shudder**

[stmaybe.livejournal.com]

for me it was the fall of gypsy moths *cringe*

Ewwwww Buuuugs.

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

For me it was two particular infestations. I giant water bug infestation (look remarkable lock cockroaches...but worse). And the summer of huge leaping camel crickets. Terrifying. Currently, our house isn't infested. The yard certainly is, but not so much the house. Though...this doesn't mean that all matter of critters don't wander inside...but at least they don't take up permanent residence here. So, the plethora of bugs really has been forcing me to take in an interest in them. Particularly because many of them are rather colorful. Gritty black and brown bugs of doom still bother me, but there seems to be more colorful ones here. The giant dark green beetles that truly have infested the yard disturbed me for awhile...until I noticed that they have trouble flying around the house. They fly full-speed into the side of the house with quite a "thunk," bounce off it a few times before they figure out where the edge of the house is, and fly around it. Kind of an endearing habit.