Thursday, Greg was working in the yard and found this HUGE walking stick insect! It is so cool! We brought it in the house so that Burgess could take it to school on Monday morning for class news. I put some manuka and pahutukawa (NZ trees) branches in a vase for it to munch and live on until we let it go, but found the guy walking across the top of our living room window shade the last couple of mornings.
Anyway, this morning we get up to get ready for school and the walking stick isn't on his branch. He isn't up by the window. In fact, we couldn't find him anywhere. And still can't! Greg's convinced the cat got fed up with all the attention the bug was getting and went all Fear-Factor on it. Burg was able to print off a couple of the pictures that we took for his class, so he wasn't fussed. We're kind of used to this sort of thing - bugs walking around the house. We also seem to keep praying mantises on our house plants. They look neat and I like to think that they help keep the annoying fly population from overthrowing us. However, this walking stick is really big. I just know we are going to plop down on the couch one of these days and hear an almighty crunch. Or I'll flip out a blanket to cover myself with only to have this guy land on my head.
Shocked house shopper: "Aaaah... What the hell is THAT?"
Nervous real estate agent: "Uhhhh..."
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