Of course we love insect collecting! It's fun family time, it's interesting, and extremely exciting we we find a new unknown (to us) specimen.
However, now with my computer on the fritz, pending a new windows installation and file backup... I'm stuck handwriting labels. We have had some tremendous finds this year, most recently finding over 100 Lady Bugs at Loyola Beach.
School Started and More Insect Labels
We were at the beach in the afternoon, the boys played football and built sand castles while baby girl and I collected the Lady's who wandered over to the shoreline. I have approximately 50 or so, which includes a few bees. Then we headed home at 4:00 p.m.
Later that day I realized I left our bags at the parking lot near the beach :-(. 2 hours later we drove back after rush hour. The bags were there!! And of course, baby girl, who came along for the ride wanted to stay at the beach. So we did. Why drive back immediately?
LIFE IS STILL EXCITING AT OUR HOUSE!
With more insects. . .
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It's mostly baby girls videos and here slime making, she spends time with friends on coloring activities and make good choices while having fun. During the covid stay at home orders - she had many many many facetime pandemic playdates - we made time work for us and not be bored.
We played in the sand, but we were distracted in ding so many more lady bugs. They were again, actively walking toward the water shoreline - in large numbers. We let the ones that came back to life fly out of the jar since there were so many dead ones. However many that flew away were observed going back, again to he water, gathering as large pools on the surface (drowned).
School Started and More Insect Labels
This afternoon collecting session resulted in over 100 specimens, with many more bees in the mix too. It's a fabulous variety of colors, patterns and sizes.
School Started, and More Insect Labels, a photo by areyousureaboutthatblog on Flickr.
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