WARNING:
THIS POST MAY BE DISTURBING TO YOU.
IF YOU ARE BOTHERED WHEN POISONOUS CREATURES ARE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO BATTLE TO THE DEATH IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE...
STOP READING.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
(And, no, I am not raising anti-social serial killers... we would never think of harming something cute or cuddly... like I said, it's in the name of science...)THIS POST MAY BE DISTURBING TO YOU.
IF YOU ARE BOTHERED WHEN POISONOUS CREATURES ARE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO BATTLE TO THE DEATH IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE...
STOP READING.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
This is an emerald jewel wasp...
Carefully saved in a jar on the counter until nightfall, when the boys could catch this...
a scorpion...
Combined into one jar/arena...
Make sure that lid is on TIGHT!
Who won?
The wasp!
How, you ask? After watching a little you-tube video to enlighten ourselves, we learned that the poison that the wasp carries "zombifies" its' prey.
That was more than I wanted to know about a creature found in my backyard... we carefully placed the jar containing both bugs in the freezer overnight. We then put the popsicled bugs in the green barrel with all the other organic materials headed to the composting place... good riddance!
2 comments:
you didn't even get any good pictures of the war! oh well. and tell layton to put a shirt on... :)
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