Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Zebra Longwing Butterflies, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Becky,

Don't think I could stand seeing a tarantula every day even if it is encased in resin!

One of my dogs started barking around 2am...it was a different from the normal 'there's a cat in the yard" bark and she was in the living room...as opposed to barking while sticking her head out the doggy door or barking at one of the windows. Immediately I had visions that a tarantula came in through the doggy door!!! I got up to investigate and she was barking at the tv cabinet. I shined a flashlight behind it but couldn't find anything...and didn't feel like getting on my hands and knees to peek underneath it either!!! That reminds me I best check now that it's daylight...ugh!

Got numerous photos of the Horned Toad (don't mean to disrupt this post on Zebras....but if I say I was out at the ranch looking for ZLT and came across the Horned Toad will that pass muster? :o)

Of course, all the photos are of the same pose...those Horned Toads don't move once they know you've spotted them!!! But I believe it was eating red ants as there was a trail nearby but when I drove up in the golf car it scurried away from them. It was a good day for critters!

...and you weren't kidding about not seeing them anymore...it's been decades for me too. Seeing this one brought back lots of those old memories of growing up at the ranch. I remember seeing a baby one once about thirty years ago...it was merely 1" big...that was the cutest thing I'd ever seen!!!


~ Cat

ps...found a dying junebug? (potato beetle? whatever those brown beetles are that show up at lights and manage to fly in through the door) under the tv cabinet...am thinking that's what the dog was barking at last night...whew!!!

This message was edited May 20, 2007 12:50 PM