Insect Observation Gifts

'I wish she wouldn't tend here roses so much: There are no aphids to eat...'

'We have praying mantises. They're good for the garden as long as they don't pray for the spinach.'

'Hey, don't let that fly in here kid, this place is liable to snap any minute!'

Eavesdropping on the ant world. . .

Nature Magnified

"Being raised in the city, Fred didn’t quite grasp the true purpose of a game camera."

"Oooh... Look, honey. Scarlet macaws! You know, they mate for life." "That's what you think."

"God, I hope no one asks me to sing."

Support group therapy for male black widow spiders.

"I dunno, looks like a trap."

Dinner at the Trapdoors

'What did one flea ask the other?' 'Shall we walk or take the dog?'

Sign in tree from bird "next appearance 3:00 pm"

"Look, a bug!"

Butterflies

"What road do you want to dart across today?"

"Sure my wings flap 70 times per second-- I've been sipping nectar all day."

'I know that bird feeder is guaranteed to be squirrel-proof, but I still think they are getting in there.'

How about going easy on the carbs

So you're a mocking bird...

Bee flying to another flower.

'Darling - I think it's time to stop feeding the birds.'

"I think the ants are mooning me again."

"It started rather well, but then, you sang two wrong notes, so that's a fail in my book. Try again at the next mating season..."

"No flight of the Bumblebee"

'Or we could just ask her what kind of dog it is.'

He can identify a fly taken by a trout at fifty yards range.

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

"Yup, pretty sure that was a flying squirrel."

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

"I'd kill for a fresh fruit fritter."

"You're right—there's no such thing as personal space in a hibernaculum."

Scenic Root: ants, bugs and worms using an exposed tree root as a scenic route.

Vegetarian Birds

"Oh, honey, look! Just under that candy bar wrapper, next to the empty Bud Light can and to the left of the plastic bag... a salamander!"