It's so quiet...
I don't remember a weekend ever being this quiet on here, save for when they first started this site. Maybe that's a very good sign. :)
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Gabe and I live in the same region and I can tell you it most assuredly is NOT garment rendering season yet! It's a late spring, for sure. I usually hear peepers in our swamp by now and it's still quiet as can be when I step out at night.
Gabe, you don't like ladybugs?! They're like, the most awesome, gentle bugs, ever! LOL! My daughter had a pet ladybug, "Scottlyn Rose" (the name we had picked out for our youngest, whom I was pregnant with at the time, had he been a she), when she was a toddler. We raised a bunch in a ladybug habitat kit that we had bought for her...and that one particular ladybug we kept after the others were released. Kept it for over a year! Fed her soaked raisins, etc.
Now spiders...those I don't abide by. My youngest wants a pet tarantula. There's a CountryMax local to us that sells them. I try to be a good boy mom...and let them have their creepy pets (the oldest had a corn snake). But a tarantula? That's a big ol' pile of NOPE!
Ask Gabe to supply you with ladybirds -- he's a dealer. LOL
- Lol, when they are big enough to eat ladybirds, I'll have Gabe send me some of his stock😂😂😂
Gabe, I promise to post pics if they get large enough, lol. Every single one died within hours of hatching, except two.
They are cool, though. We usually have hundreds of nymphs in our field. Here's a closeup of one. You can see the upside down M shape (in the white) at the top of its head. That's how you can tell that it's an Asian Ladybug. This one pictured doesn't have any spots on its back, but most of them do.
That's a great pic, Gabe. I think I have the same type of beetle.
GabeUwrote:Here's a closeup of one. You can see the upside down M shape (in the white) at the top of its head. That's how you can tell that it's an Asian Ladybug. This one pictured doesn't have any spots on its back, but most of them do.
These ARE actually the ones I get every winter -- they come in, congragate in corners, and slowly die off, though I guess some go out in the spring.
