Finally, a couple of visitors!
Still hadn’t seen any larvae this season.
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Saw one of those blue ones this AM.
Friendly little guys.
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The blue one is a spicebush swallowtail. I saw a bunch of these on a riverbank a couple weeks ago. They are gorgeous, especially the underwings.
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They have a somewhat fearsome-looking larva. I found one on the ground last summer - I might’ve posted it here?
But I don’t think it’s as fearsome as this, which I just found on the ground:
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Where are you?
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Wuppertal! Closest I’ve ever been to there is Köln. Looks like I really should visit sometime. Lovely!
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Several years ago, after the air-conditioner was replaced, we had a problem with mice and bats in the basement until I foamed the hell out of possible entry points.
Watching bats fly around the basement was pretty amazing, but I was never able to catch them and release them outside.
Today I was doing some decluttering, and I think we don’t need the box of dried bats.
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Yeesh! Be careful…
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Several years dead, but gloves and mask.
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Hey, Kids! Try our new Box o’ Dried Bats, from the makers of Box o’ Dried Rats! It’s part of a nutritious breakfast!
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Do be careful trying to catch bats.
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The best way is not to catch them, but to make a dark corridor to the outside. You can do it in stages, and remember to turn off the porch light for the final bit.
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Looks they could have used a Legend brand door. If it keeps out the floods, maybe it would keep out the bats!
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You should!
And if you do, let me show you around.
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Send them my way, I need wing of bat for some curses I am whipping up to direct towards some GOP governors
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and we need them to come pollinate our dragon fruit cactus!
the one up the ancient tamarind tree goes 20 meters up, blooms twice a year, yet no fruit. old timers say the bats have diminished due to mosquito control and habitat encroachment.
we are trying bat boxes, but they have to come back
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Ebeneser-House Jugend(Art Nouveau)-style house built in 1908, designed by the architect Wivi Lönn in the Sörnäinen district of Helsinki.
https://www.myhelsinki.fi/en/see-and-do/sights/kindergarten-museum
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