JoeCapricorn
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Nectarine... she's the last of the four Eastern Lubber grasshoppers I got last November. She's the strongest and she held on the longest - she's still alive. However the tips of her antennae are starting to curl and twist, the lower parts of her hind legs are practically dead and she seems slower. Despite all of this, it seems she is aging and going out slowly and gracefully...
Is there any thing I can do at all to slow the aging process? I've always wondered about this, since if this process were to be slowed, she could have a week or more with me.
I'm still anticipating her eventual departure and it's kind of agonizing when you know it is coming, but don't know exactly when. I thought she would be gone today, when I got home first thing I did was take her out and "hug" her. She's sitting on my keyboard on top of a pile of misted lettuce.
She's the grasshopper I've kept the deepest into a new year, the previous record was Grassy, a dwarfed female Differential grasshopper with twisted knotted wings and a small size (smaller than many males of her species) - this hopper lived until February 2nd of 2002, I had her since around September of 2001. Back then I didn't know a lick of what I know today about keeping bugs.
Eastern lubbers make great pets <3
Is there any thing I can do at all to slow the aging process? I've always wondered about this, since if this process were to be slowed, she could have a week or more with me.
I'm still anticipating her eventual departure and it's kind of agonizing when you know it is coming, but don't know exactly when. I thought she would be gone today, when I got home first thing I did was take her out and "hug" her. She's sitting on my keyboard on top of a pile of misted lettuce.
She's the grasshopper I've kept the deepest into a new year, the previous record was Grassy, a dwarfed female Differential grasshopper with twisted knotted wings and a small size (smaller than many males of her species) - this hopper lived until February 2nd of 2002, I had her since around September of 2001. Back then I didn't know a lick of what I know today about keeping bugs.
Eastern lubbers make great pets <3
