Bee Friends And Other Garden Guests - Chapter 7 - A New Year 2017 in the Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

GrammaChar

Apr 24, 2017 3:35 PM CST

Maryland (Zone 7b)
Passionate about Native Plants

Well, I think the cricket is cool in a spiny-lobster sort of way. And good photo, Abbey!

GrammaChar

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Garden10

Apr 24, 2017 3:43 PM CST

Name: Abbey
Eastern New York State (Zone 6a)

GrammaChar said:My guess would be a perfectly harmless cricket of some sort. You didn't kill it, did you?????

Did I not say in my post that I didn't kill it??? I wanted to, but all of a sudden, I heard, "when you wish upon a star..." and...

"Every now and then I leave the book on the seat and go and have a refreshing potter among my flower beds from which I return greatly benefited, and with a more just conception of what is worth bothering about, and what is not." The Solitary Summer -- Elizabeth von Arnim

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Garden10

Apr 24, 2017 3:46 PM CST

Name: Abbey
Eastern New York State (Zone 6a)

wildflowers said:Eeek! I've never seen one of those but I think its a Spotted Camel Cricket!

http://www.insectidentificatio...

Thank you, I didn't want to be the only eeker!!!

Spotted Camel Cricket. I'll be dipped.

"Every now and then I leave the book on the seat and go and have a refreshing potter among my flower beds from which I return greatly benefited, and with a more just conception of what is worth bothering about, and what is not." The Solitary Summer -- Elizabeth von Arnim

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wildflowers

Apr 24, 2017 4:53 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Christine
North East Texas (Zone 7b)
Shine Your Light!

bugs with long legs and toes tend to make me go eeek!

Garden10 said:

Did I not say in my post that I didn't kill it??? I wanted to, but all of a sudden, I heard, "when you wish upon a star..." and...

Jiminy Cricket!!

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb

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Garden10

Apr 24, 2017 5:21 PM CST

Name: Abbey
Eastern New York State (Zone 6a)

Thanks for the acorn, Gramma!!

wildflowers said: bugs with long legs and toes tend to make me go eeek!

Jiminy Cricket!!

What can I say, wooden-headed Italian kids are just putty in his hands

"Every now and then I leave the book on the seat and go and have a refreshing potter among my flower beds from which I return greatly benefited, and with a more just conception of what is worth bothering about, and what is not." The Solitary Summer -- Elizabeth von Arnim

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