Invertebrates Gifts

Snail to Slug.

"Tight......this isn't tight...now a New York City apartment......that's tight."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

Grace For Flies

"I kid you not, blood was oozing from the walls! Unfortunately, it was fake: I had stumbled on the set of a horror movie..."

Unforgettable, that's what you are... Gnat King Cole

Speed Dating for Turtles

'If Earwigs looked like baby seals:'

Dinner at the Trapdoors

"I decided to go all out on the house decorations this year."

The Amazing Man-Spider

'I had a wonderful garden last year. Bark beetles, aphids, mealy worms, thripes, wax seal, gray mold, and grubs!'

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

A Punk Rocker Cocoon.

The Poky Little Pupa.

Football Chameleon

Annie, the Reptile version: 'The sun will come out tomorrow! Tomorrow! You will sun yourself tomorrow!'

"I think the ants are mooning me again."

"Me, as soon as I'm old enough, I'm out of here! I'll go and join my older brother: he's a beach bum in San Diego, California..."

Wordplay: Gastropod.

“...And on the ninth day God created mosquitoes, just to annoy the hell out of everyone.”

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

Butterfly herders of the wild west.

'What the..? She IS a stick!'

"Wait—what did I come into this room to do?"

'Cool! Brownstar Wars!'

Building Sandcastles.

'Oh no, it's the Burkes! You stall them here while I go fix my hair and don't let them roam around. Remember, once you have cockroaches in your kitchen, you'll never get rid of them.'

The flies have landed.

"No flight of the Bumblebee"

'Play it again, Sam.'

What's that? - 'It's a mosquito bite.' - 'Scratch it!' - 'No, I need to buy some cream.' - 'Make it bleed!!!' - 'Gahhh!!!' -

'I haven't been able to come to grips with it. My hands are too small.'

Antlers: A Deer with Ants for Antlers.

"Let's get ready to bumble!"