Friday, May 15, 2020

Mormon crickets are nasty

... just walking among them made me shutter.  Those little critters are disgusting.  The roads were red in the car tracks from the sheer amount.

When I was younger I caught some of these nasty critters and put them in resin to make paper weights.  I thought they would be such a fun conversation piece.   However, I learned a few things:

1.  Mormon crickets are awful alive or dead. Whether they are staring at you through a glob of resin or on the side of the road, they are not where I want my eyes to land.

2.  When dying, crickets give off a gas or air that makes bubbles in the resin.  I guess you are supposed to hold them and pop the bubbles, but I hadn't learned that lesson yet.  I quickly moved to # three.

3. Toss, burn or bury.  Leave no sign they were ever here.

 

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