Bugs in the family

topic posted Fri, April 11, 2008 - 9:00 PM by  wiggle wiggles
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My father was an entomologist and had my sisiter and I collecting insects and watching eggs hatch to catterpillers, cocoons/chrysalis and moths/butterfiles. We would go hunting for crickets at night and look for insects. Daddy was a science teacher. So I am, of course, still interested in entomology and life science. It is a pleasure to watch the native insects in California and the seasons they go through. We have Tiger Swallowtails, I remember raising the cute catterpillers and watching them hatch into butterflies when I was a kid. I loved the "wooly bear" catterpillers. Soft and fuzzy. One night a couple of years ago we had a Polyphemos (sp?) Moth come to the light at night. She landed on my finger and then flew off.
Anyway I saw this tribe and said wow! Other people like entomology, too. Cool.
Wiggle wiggles
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  • Re: Bugs in the family

    Fri, April 11, 2008 - 9:17 PM
    Welcome Wiggles :-) Yes, you are among family here, we all love insects. I spent half my life in San Diego. I still remember finding a whiptail scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus) while camping as a boyscout. I believe it was at camp Mataguay at the base of Mt Palomar. I had no idea what it was and picked it up thinking it was some kind of strange roach (I was only about 8 yrs old) The scoutmaster gently asked me to put it in a jar before telling me what it was.

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