what Fallie found or obsessed
What Fallie and I found We came out of the restaurant and started walking back to the car when we both stopped and yelled, “A red velvet ant!” I ran to the car and made it back just in time with a container (I had to dump out my gum and use that container because we had put a dead insect in the “car bug jar” to study and left it at home). If I hadn’t caught her on my first try, she would have escaped - no messing around with this one. We kept her for a day and realized we were wrong - she is not a red velvet ant. This is a cow killer, a type of velvet ant with a sting so painful that people say it could kill a cow. Lucky Fallie saw her stinger come out and it is half an inch long! I think this is my favorite found insect yet.
What Fallie found (and has always wanted to see turn into a butterfly but I made her let it go).
What Fallie found at the construction site behind our house and safely carried all the way home. She does this cute impression of a praying mantis catching its prey with its grasping, spiked forelegs.










