Project 366...
Aug. 22nd, 2008 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deltamissThis has been a week for critters around school. A giant silkworm moth, a very large box turtle and today a velvet ant (commonly called a COW KILLER!).
This monster is at least an inch long and is a female. Females don't have wings; males have tiny ones. They nest in the ground and come out when the earth is disturbed. I guess all the landscape work, mowing and weed-eating woke up a colony. They are known as 'cow killers' because the sting of many can kill a cow. Duh! According to my research, the sting of one is not fatal, but it will make you wish you could die. :/
Shoot! I was all up in that little Gladware container trying to take a decent picture. Thank goodness I didn't anger her! :D
'Cow Killer!'...
Photo of the Day...'Let Me OUT!'...
This monster is at least an inch long and is a female. Females don't have wings; males have tiny ones. They nest in the ground and come out when the earth is disturbed. I guess all the landscape work, mowing and weed-eating woke up a colony. They are known as 'cow killers' because the sting of many can kill a cow. Duh! According to my research, the sting of one is not fatal, but it will make you wish you could die. :/
Shoot! I was all up in that little Gladware container trying to take a decent picture. Thank goodness I didn't anger her! :D
'Cow Killer!'...
Photo of the Day...'Let Me OUT!'...