Digger
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Posted pictures of my nymph condos a day or two ago. Now I can't locate the images !
Had all the condos stacked under a table on the deck in case of rain. Storm it did. At 12:30 am, I went out to make sure all was ok. I lifted up one of the condominiums - it was heavy. FILLED with rain water !
I called the Coast Guard and went into emergency mode, running each container into the kitchen and carefully removing the lid. Every nymph survived - even in houses that were over half filled with H2O. Thankfully the stocking liners (on the top covers) make superb gripping surfaces. So every house was dismantled, dried and re-inhabited. Some of the L1s were shaken up. But most of the L2s thought it was a great adventure and were chattering wildly about it.
One of the last condos to be emptied had an L1 runt in it - clinging upside down to a tiny twig. Without thinking I said, "Hey ! How ya doin' little buddy?" Thus it struck me a second later to name him "Gilligan." If it's a she, perhaps "Jill."
Had all the condos stacked under a table on the deck in case of rain. Storm it did. At 12:30 am, I went out to make sure all was ok. I lifted up one of the condominiums - it was heavy. FILLED with rain water !
I called the Coast Guard and went into emergency mode, running each container into the kitchen and carefully removing the lid. Every nymph survived - even in houses that were over half filled with H2O. Thankfully the stocking liners (on the top covers) make superb gripping surfaces. So every house was dismantled, dried and re-inhabited. Some of the L1s were shaken up. But most of the L2s thought it was a great adventure and were chattering wildly about it.
One of the last condos to be emptied had an L1 runt in it - clinging upside down to a tiny twig. Without thinking I said, "Hey ! How ya doin' little buddy?" Thus it struck me a second later to name him "Gilligan." If it's a she, perhaps "Jill."
