the awkward moment when a hemileuca is mistaken for heroin

[agent A]

ok so as i sit here crying, partially because one person involved in this story is moving and im real sad about it, i figured i would share a funny story

yesterday i went to my neighbors and her candles were lit and i looked into one and saw a hemileuca lucina male had been attracted to it and had died in the wax

this neighbor moved today and im sad but before she left i took her candle and chipped the moth out of the wax to have it

how did i get the extra wax away? i put the moth on a spoon and heated it with a lighter to melt the wax away

well my other, non moving neighbor was watching me and he thought i was doing heroin :lol:

 

[Paradoxica]

Don't you know about the dangers of intravenous bug use?!!

 

[sally]

that brightened my day, thanks for sharing, too funny.

 

[devetaki9]

Lol I can just imagine ^.^

 

[agent A]

Don't you know about the dangers of intravenous bug use?!!

i do crystal moth all the time though

 

[HungryGhost]

Bugs are better than drugs.

 

[Peter Clausen]

I had a slightly similar thing happen a few weeks ago. I had two guys over and we spent half the day sorting dead bugs in my insect freezer in the garage. It was a beautiful afternoon and I had the garage door up. We were preserving some of the specimens in ethanol and since the lab grade stuff is rather hard to come by, we were using ~Everclear (190 proof) which is nearly the same thing but is pasteurized or whatever for human consumption. Well, I'd never tasted it before and we are all sort of joking about it and so I poured a cap-ful from the bottle into the tiny lid and drank it.....just as my nice, older and Christian neighbor with the perfectly manicured yard walked to the neighborhood mailbox in front of my house. There I was with a bottle in one hand and full in swing with what might have looked like a shot glass from his angle in the other. I didn't collect myself quickly enough to explain before he was back in his own house. Worse yet, I think I killed all the good and bad bacteria in the first 18 inches of my digestive system. Pretty wicked stuff!

 

[agent A]

I had a slightly similar thing happen a few weeks ago. I had two guys over and we spent half the day sorting dead bugs in my insect freezer in the garage. It was a beautiful afternoon and I had the garage door up. We were preserving some of the specimens in ethanol and since the lab grade stuff is rather hard to come by, we were using ~Everclear (190 proof) which is nearly the same thing but is pasteurized or whatever for human consumption. Well, I'd never tasted it before and we are all sort of joking about it and so I poured a cap-ful from the bottle into the tiny lid and drank it.....just as my nice, older and Christian neighbor with the perfectly manicured yard walked to the neighborhood mailbox in front of my house. There I was with a bottle in one hand and full in swing with what might have looked like a shot glass from his angle in the other. I didn't collect myself quickly enough to explain before he was back in his own house. Worse yet, I think I killed all the good and bad bacteria in the first 18 inches of my digestive system. Pretty wicked stuff!

thats funnyi mayve killed off all the bacteria in my colon with laxatives but thats a story for another day

my AP bio binder has dead moths plastered to it, a luna, a poly, and a rothschildia and the first day of school people were creeped out even more than when i brought the luna's live mother in back in june :lol:

 

[Peter Clausen]

I suppose decorating your folder with moths is, for some, like wearing fur. Humans didn't have as many options for adornment in the early days, eh? Insects, to me, are like moving flowers. Or kites or balloons without strings, usually just out of reach. Nothing we make quite equals.

 

[agent A]

I suppose decorating your folder with moths is, for some, like wearing fur. Humans didn't have as many options for adornment in the early days, eh? Insects, to me, are like moving flowers. Or kites or balloons without strings, usually just out of reach. Nothing we make quite equals.

well it was funny because I brought in a female luna moth in june and everyone was astonished and freaked out

then I went to GSA with her and said "if I were a male luna moth, i'd tap that"

well 2 days later a real male luna moth tapped that

then I reared her offspring on a hickory but most escaped while I was away

1 cocoon remained when I returned and soon eclosed into a male

3 days passed and he still couldn't fly

meanwhile a small male from an NPV infected sleeve flew away and so mother nature owes me one, seeing as I gave her an NPV resistant male :lol:

I took the male who just wouldn't fly and I froze him then put him on my AP bio binder along with a male rothschildia that was lying around in my room and a male polyphemus who mated with my antheraea hybrid (I still have their larvae)

so yeah, it's fun