It’s Phyllophaga Time
Crumby spilled the milk on the Hymenopappus. Because, Hymenopappus may not exactly be a whole feature. Turns out, we don’t really have much on it or of it. I think, Crumby may have just been amused over the baby named Hymeno. Hymeno, according to Crumby is the name for a baby boy. Hymena would be the equivalent for a baby girl.
Goodness gracious sakes alive! You know Ray and I never knew our grand parents. That’s sad but correct. Unless you count the elderly moles that showed scant interest in us. No. They would not count.
Thus, scant input went into naming Ray and me. Hmm. I wonder if more thought went into naming me, versus Ray. Hard to say, though probably not. Dr. Swineherd could just as easily have named me Raylene or Raylou. Or Hymena. And Ray could be Hymeno. For goodness sakes!
But never mind that. Let’s discuss June bugs. Crumby likes to tell everybody how his granny once swallowed a June bug. The June bug flew into her open mouth while she was fixing to slug down a cool drink of ice tea. Yes. Ice tea. The kind of strong ice tea with plenty of ice and fresh mint that everyone enjoys in the summertime. You just don’t expect to get a June bug with it.
So tonight, the metaphorical CB spotlight is on June bugs which are only now fixing to appear in good numbers in these parts. However, the CB may not have many June bugs. That’s because Crumby and Ray have a little dog for a pet. And that little dog detects June bug larva in the ground. Once detected, she digs them up and eats them. Last winter, she ate hundreds of white grubs, another name for the June bug larva. Now, the CB may not have many June bugs. Amazing but true!
Last night we decided to rig a light outside. I put a lamp on Crumby’s new astro table with a pillow case covering the table top. Then we all settled back to watch the bugs.
It was a slow night. Very few insects came to our light. Yet we did espy this solitary June bug, in the spotlight, a lucky survivor of the winter massacre. The technique is, hold a flashlight in one hand. Aim the camera with the other hand. If the bug is big, like a June bug, you can shoot at full zoom. And the camera, set on shutter priority, will employ flash synced to any shutter speed up to 1/1000. Too bad there’s only a 4x zoom.
Well. There are at least eight species of Phyllophaga dwelling among us in these parts. Who knows this one?
Goodness gracious sakes alive! You know Ray and I never knew our grand parents. That’s sad but correct. Unless you count the elderly moles that showed scant interest in us. No. They would not count.
Thus, scant input went into naming Ray and me. Hmm. I wonder if more thought went into naming me, versus Ray. Hard to say, though probably not. Dr. Swineherd could just as easily have named me Raylene or Raylou. Or Hymena. And Ray could be Hymeno. For goodness sakes!
But never mind that. Let’s discuss June bugs. Crumby likes to tell everybody how his granny once swallowed a June bug. The June bug flew into her open mouth while she was fixing to slug down a cool drink of ice tea. Yes. Ice tea. The kind of strong ice tea with plenty of ice and fresh mint that everyone enjoys in the summertime. You just don’t expect to get a June bug with it.
So tonight, the metaphorical CB spotlight is on June bugs which are only now fixing to appear in good numbers in these parts. However, the CB may not have many June bugs. That’s because Crumby and Ray have a little dog for a pet. And that little dog detects June bug larva in the ground. Once detected, she digs them up and eats them. Last winter, she ate hundreds of white grubs, another name for the June bug larva. Now, the CB may not have many June bugs. Amazing but true!
Last night we decided to rig a light outside. I put a lamp on Crumby’s new astro table with a pillow case covering the table top. Then we all settled back to watch the bugs.
It was a slow night. Very few insects came to our light. Yet we did espy this solitary June bug, in the spotlight, a lucky survivor of the winter massacre. The technique is, hold a flashlight in one hand. Aim the camera with the other hand. If the bug is big, like a June bug, you can shoot at full zoom. And the camera, set on shutter priority, will employ flash synced to any shutter speed up to 1/1000. Too bad there’s only a 4x zoom. Well. There are at least eight species of Phyllophaga dwelling among us in these parts. Who knows this one?
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, May 16, 2010
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