urbpan: (treefrog)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2005-07-26 04:57 pm

I love my niece and nephew

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.

[identity profile] crunchywater.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww those are such cute photos. Its cool to see kids that young appreciate nature and especially "creepy, nasty" things. ;P


My batch of hissers gave me 30+ babies yesterday. I am hopeing for some more females. A few of them got out the top of the cage, but luckily my kittens are good at finding things. haha.

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2005-07-28 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
A few of them got out the top of the cage

This is why they're at [livejournal.com profile] urbpan's work and not in the house. Yikes!