Well, I was going to post a thread called "Open Season" because today is the first time I've noticed bugs, but you beat me to it! Looks like you've had better weather in NJ than we've had here in Washington...
So, this is the first warm period of weather we've had in a bit... My roommate actually opened the sliding glass door today! Siri molted to L6 yesterday, and although I have some mealworms, I'm waiting for my blue bottles to hatch and he's apparently tired of the worms. I live in apartment complex, on the third floor, so I went out onto my deck with my coffee to take a break from writing a paper and it was like a buffet out there! A bunch of fat flies, sunning themselves on my deck! I promptly got my butterfly net from my room (comes in real handy) and went back out to catch breakfast for Siri. Because of the apartment complex layout, there's decks beside and below mine, and someone's dad was sitting on the deck to the right one floor down. He's reading and ignoring me, at first, as I prance around in my pajamas with a butterfly net. I catch a few flies, mostly by slamming the net down onto the deck floor, which makes a modest "bang" each time. After one of these hunting sessions, I stand up going "hah"! with a fly between my fingers and I look over and the guy has put down his newspaper and is watching me... Luckily by that time I'd gotten five big flies so I called it a day and retreated to my room... :whistling:
That was my funniest experience in terms of feeding... Siri loved the flies, he's munching happily away right now. I don't have any pics but I'm attaching a picture of lil' Siri eating a mealworm... I guess the only other thing he does that's funny is sometimes, when I drop a mealworm in front of him on my hand, he'll watch it until it gets too close and touches one of his feet! Then he pulls it away and shakes it and gives the worm a look like, "Eeww... A bug!" :blink: (I haven't had the heart to tell him that he's an insect too!)
Ignore the "crumbs" on my hand... it's from the mealworm container. (Those things can be tough to scoop out sometimes!) I love the way he holds these things... reminds me of a hot dog or ice cream cone!
Oh yeah... and once I saw Siri in the process of trying to eat THREE flies! One in each claw, and he had another abdomen in his mouth.
Greedy little bugger!
