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A Bugs Life

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char

Today I went to check my tomato plants. I see something move on one of the tomatoes. I take a closer look and see more of these green horned wormy things. What the heck are they??? They are eating my green tomatoes. So I put some rubber gloves on--kept chanting to myself that I could do it--and pulled them off!!! I'm very freak out by it--still am-- but, I removed them all. I don't have the heart to kill them, so I drove them down the road to dump them off with some parts of the plant and already eatin tomatoes.


 


Green wormy things: Oh, and they pee green!!!!


 


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A few days before this.....


 


Was attending this event that I had to really dress up for. I couldn't wait to get home to rest and get cozy.


 


I get home to find this HUGE prying mantis in the tree. It's the tree my hummingbirds like to rest on. I was told that this mantis is big enough that she can catch a hummingbird and kill it. So the mantis had to GO!. I didn't want to hurt her (she was really cool looking). So, I tried to get her down with a rake. Not easy. I thought I had her, when a leaf fell from the tree. I thought it was her that landed on me. I was screaming, jumping, flapping arms, more screaming, a bit of crying, and more jumping. How foolish I felt when I saw it wasn't her, but I looked all dressed up while doing it...Anyway, seeing I was out of my league, I enlisted a gullible helper. Yeah, I'm that nice....lol. Well, he got the big bugger and quickly put her in a bowl I had ready. I was jumping up and down a bit just to keep from freaking out. We took her to a nice far away new home with lots of trees. When we set her free, she just looked at us and kept reaching out to the camera. Then she cleaned her cute (really, it was cute) face. She would turn her head to look at me and then the camera. I have to say I fell in love with her, but seeing how I didn't want to get my head bit off, I said my farewells and we parted. I named her Chompers.


 


When I got home after releasing the mantis, my hummingbirds had no idea the sacrifice I had made for them. Love is selfish, love is blind.


 


 


 


This is her:


 


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Her new home:


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Checking us out:


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Saying goodbye:


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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to pass out on the sofa. . .

Comments (14)

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sicrik·
Durty caught a walking stick in our kitchen the other day.....we kept it for a few days so the kids could see it, then we let it go
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H2Daddy·
If you had any idea how poisonous those things are, you would never have touched them, gloves or no gloves.\r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r \r Just kidding. Their harmless.:)
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char·
OK H2, YOU GOT ME! with that one. I started looking at my hands to see if they were turnin green!...lol.....shame on you!....\r \r *char goes to wash her hands a few more times (just in case)*\r \r sicrik, they are cute to look at. Still messed with my mind tho...heheh I'm a wuss!\r \r
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VenomRudman·
Holy cow! I never knew that a Praying Mantis can kill and eat a bird!
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char·
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING!!!!!Please don't look if you don't want to see a mantis killing a bird!!!!!!!\r \r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0CGkD4mcuQ
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char·
I forgot to add The mantis will sit on a feeder till a hummer comes along. If the mantis is big enough he can take a small bird down.
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CrypticCat·
You're a damn hero in my book. Anything with more than two legs and a set of wings in the north, I go south. It's even worse with spiders... I'm the world's biggest arachnaphobic...
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jquack·
Those worms are the coolest looking things ever!\r \r That said, you'd never see me near one. I grow girl parts when there's bugs around.....\r \r that was awkward
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char·
Quack...LMKO!!! girl parts!!!! OHHH MYYYY!!! \r \r CCat, I'm a big wuss to, it's just I hate killing these little bugs. Or, a big mantis. \r \r
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BasBleu·
Char, you are truly a gentle woman among brutes. Most people would never go out of their way, as you did, to save a small life. I applaud your efforts! Thank you for choosing kindness!
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williamadamsesq·
It's a chimeran crawler!!!!!
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XValue·
you need to move out of the woods. I like my big city. The most I see are ants!\r \r *sips glorious coffee*
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RogueRose·
Looks to me like that manis has been eating those huge green worms. hehe ewwww bugs..ewwww I applaud your courage in touching those critters..ewww
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Caesar·
holy shit