Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 51, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Also was so intent on getting this Great Purple Hairstreak's photo that I did not realize I was standing on an ant mound!!! I must have been shuffling my feet around for about two minutes when I felt a bite. I looked down and my boots and jeans were just about black with lines and lines of ant crawling up my pant legs!!! YIKES!!! I jumped back and started to brush them off as fast as I could. Then zipped over to the ladies room to shake out my boots and pants :o) I ended up getting three ant bites...not bad considering the mass of ants that were pissed because I stomped all over their home!!!

Of course, everyone always wants photos of a Great Purple Hairstreak so I had to show the park visitors where this one was hanging out. Needless to say, when I warned them about the ants and they saw the flattened ant mound...I heard the snickers! :o)

~ Cat

This message was edited Oct 21, 2008 7:47 PM