I love my niece and nephew

[urbpan]

And they love bugs! (and other stuff)


My brother's children visited New England this summer, from Las Vegas.

Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches are old hat!




The whole family held the corn snake.





Then we went out to the crop fields--what are they picking?



Potato beetles!



When they came to my neighborhood, Duncan found a really big gypsy moth caterpillar!



Frankie liked it too.



They seemed to have a knack for finding big insects! You don't usually see big beetles like this in Boston!



Duncan worked hard at extricating a dinosaur from this pink rock, sawing away until the rock turned to dust.



See?



Ever-ready to discover nature in unusual places, they locate an insect in the aisle of Target!



They even found a rare Lorax, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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[zipotle.livejournal.com]

I don't like those caterpillars.
Yay for picking taterbugs!

What IS that giant beetle?


Supercute kids.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Near as I can tell, it's a ground beetle (family Carabidae)of some kind. We caught one last night, in the same place--it was flying in low, lazy circles--and earlier in the day we found another one. I've never seen them here before, now there's three in one month. Go figure.