urbpan | 3:00 snapshot, #128. (Reply)

baby ducks

Disgusting substance of the day: Mealworm goo. My boss said that once a baby bird had been fed mealworms and they didn't die inside the bird, but instead ate their way out of the baby bird, killing it, so she recommended "crushing the heads" of the mealworms. I don't like crushing bugs (I didn't realize this was something I'm squeamish about until today) but I wanted to feed the baby ducks some mealworms. So I snipped their heads off with the poultry shears that we use to chop mice up with. (You know, I was hoping someone would link to this post to

baaaaabyanimals but now I think those people wouldn't want to read this part.) So when I picked up these decapitated mealworms to feed the baby ducks, their sticky white mealworm goo got on my hands, so that's my disgusting substance of the day. Then I found five dollars.

On this day in 365 urban species: Wolf's milk. I actually saw my first wolf's milk of the year this week. (but I didn't photograph it) :(

ON TO THE BABY DUCKS!!