What An Interesting Day...

[gness]

...first the bees in the bird box....sleeping now but still with the guards around the entrance...

Then lots of gardening where I uncovered frog after frog....large ones and tiny ones...

But tonight, noodling here with the door open I was puzzled by a strange buzzing and crackling sound......and discovered a Cockchafer walking up the mug tree....it has many names.....I have never seen one before and it is the most fascinating beetle.....

I have had a google and in Avignon in 1320 cockchafers were taken to court and ordered to leave town...if they didn't comply they would be killed..
They have remarkable antennae....just like antlers....the male seven leaves and the female six....these allow the males to detect females in the dark.....(bet you'd like that...;-)...)
I have a female in the kitchen...and I'm delighted but will return it to the wild....google it......so interesting......Gx

[aelmpvw]

hope she doesn't misread that as naturist

[aelmpvw]

crossed posts :-)

[gness]

YAY!!!!! Ael....I do love you.....xxx

[Tilly2]

Given my post yesterday.....not long. ;-)

[Tilly2]

Told you!

[tonyav]

Cockchafer !
AHHGGGG wince wince

[gness]

Naturalist and naturist, Tilly.....
I was just getting undressed for an early night when I heard the scream of a distressed frog.....dashed into the garden....well it was dark till the security light came on....and found...
A cat tormenting a frog.....leapt into action with my handily placed fat ball to throw at the fence and fell over the unputaway hosepipe.....

Cat jumped over the fence......I sat in an ungainly manner on the patio and the frog hopped into the pond..... :-)

[Tilly2]

I hope you got up in a dignified manner.

[gness]

At my age, Tilly?...I'm just delighted to get up at all......x

[sunny-dave]

Me too, me too ....

... ribbit ... ribbit ...

[Tilly2]

I find that rolling over onto the knees helps. :-)

[gness]

There was no...it....in that post, Dave.....so behave yourself!... ;-)

It does, Tilly......and then a breather before the next step....x

[Caran]

Frogs certainly can scream, and loudly too. I remember when I had my cat, she loved catching frogs and bringing them home to mummy. Especially through the bedroom window and giving mummy a present in bed!
We lived in a bungalow then.

[gness]

They can scream, Caran! Like a child's squeaky toy gone wrong... :-)

[shoota]

'I find that rolling over onto the knees helps.'
Yup, helps me...

[aelmpvw]

//.I sat in an ungainly manner on the patio and the frog hopped into the pond//
please tell us there is security video of the incident that we can view

[gness]

Naughty, Shoota!.....but nice.... ;-)

Do you know, Ael.....there is a camera!....Are you seeing footage?...Not in a million years!......x