Egg Identification

Terry, I grew up in Southern IL and loved lightning bugs there when I was a child. Here in Central FL we seldom see them...and oddly enough, there's usually only one or two on the very rare occasions when we've spotted them. I've lived here over 30 years and can count on half the fingers of one hand the number of times I've seen lightning bugs. Now love bugs...that's another story! Hate those things! Where to you live in Illinois?

Yay, KN, did you wish me some rain today? We finally had a shower early this evening. I just wish it had rained more because we certainly need it. Last year we ended up with a rain deficit of over 12", and we're not off to a good start this year. It's a tad scary because we have a well...and sinkholes are starting to open up.

Biv - I'm clicking my heels and sending happy thoughts for rain. You can have half of what we got. 6" yesterday, according to my gauge.

Sinkholes would scare me. I saw this last month....

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/23/sinkhole.ap/index.html

that's a scary sinkhole!

Note to self, it is hard not to type stinkhorn when typing sinkhole.

Ooooeeee...yes, that's one big sinkhole! And they are indeed scary. Years ago there was a huge one here that swallowed a house, part of a car dealership and part of a swimming pool (if I remember correctly). I do recall that a woman looked out her window and saw a tree suddenly disappear. Photos showed cars from the dealership sliding down into the hole...which is now a lake. This whole state is floating on limestone caverns not too far beneath us. When we have droughts, they start to give way. And sometimes they also give way when there's too much rain. I tell ya, you just can't win in this state!

It is natures way of redesigning the nieborhood

I'd be happier if Ma Nature would leave us alone when it comes to the nastiness she can create.

bivbiv, I live in the northern part of the state. I'm an hour north of Peoria and an hour east of Moline IL and right off I-80. We have lightening bugs galore.

That sinkhole was something! 330 ft deep?? Our ground here is saturated with the melting snow and ice, then we had some rain, but nothing near the 6" that knolan talks about!

Renatelynne, that's a good way to put it. I think that way when tornados or big winds take trees. Chaos creates change.

Well, I feel lucky to have lightning bugs. The wetter the spring the more hatch out. Maybe I'll practice with the night settting and come up with a picture. Don't hold your breath tho.

I do not know what a stinkhorn is..

But i love the tree frogs wish had bunches.. so cute .

ok i know i see , weird looking. i like weird, the colors on that page were pretty but they remind me of something else just can't put my finger on it..??? i would like them to in the yard so weird..

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Hey Hope, me and knolan can set you up mighty fine with a stinkhorn incubation plan. Please let us know if you'd like to incubate a few on your counter top. She'll even toss in a few knitted sweaters for youu bouncing baby stinkers. I saw this really neat multi colored yarn at Walmart for baby blankets and it came in pink, yellow, lt green, lt blue, and white. That covers all the bases with stinkhorns.

Tha's right, we're pros. We know how to do it the right way for sure.

Oooohh.....multi-colored yarn. Now, why didn't I think of that?

BP found this thread earlier. Very appropriate...I think. I had to laugh.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/601123/

You have me to think of ways to waste your money so that your husband can really poke sport at you! That's why you didn't think of the multi colored yarn!

I saw that butt shroom in that thread. Is this foreshadowing of what will be in your incubator next?

Let's see...tortilla warmer, multi-colored yarn...oh yes, do tell what's next.

No butt shrooms for me. One stinky, ugly fungus is all I need to keep the crowds coming to my yard, thank you very much.

Gimme a while to think about that...

I forgot to say, I was told by the extension office not to touch or move my fungus' but it was too late. I spent last weekend finally clearing out that bed and tossed everything into lawn bags. I hope I'm not causing an explosion at the local landfill. If so, it was unintentional. I must say that I 'gagged' the entire time I was cleaning as all of the little eggs had started 'blooming/hatching'.

I can't believe I'm going to say this. I would have much rather preferred snakes.

Couldabeenworse-

http://www.kurtknoll.com/mush3.html

I had a man and wife bring in scrambled egg fungus AKA dog vomit fungus last week. It looks like a dog vomited scrambled eggs with sausage mixed in. Really gross looking. But at least it doesn't stink!

Hey, I could use both of those for my next halloween party. They'd be a gas, for certain.

Naa, there's better out there for a Halloween Party. Totally off topic but you can re-create Frankenstein's operating room if you're having a kid's party. Make sure you don't have any pre-schoolers in the bunch for the party. Start with a sheet of plywood and lay it out over construction horses. Now cover that with a bedspread or something that drapes over the edges so you can't see what's under the table. Cut a hole in the plywood so one Dad can stick his head up and out. If you position it just right, you can stick a chair underneath so that Dad doesn't have to kneel. Create some sort of a body and stuff it. You can pick up clothes cheap at Salvation Army for the second Dad who will dress up as Frankenstein. Cut holes in the sheet that goes over the "body" with flaps where the heart, lungs, intestines... etc. would be. Now get the first Dad to apply make-up like the monster with bolts sticking out of his neck and have him stick his head up through the hole from underneath. You place raw beef tongue in a tray recessed down into the dummy body under the flap where a lung would be. Scrambled eggs for brains that are placed in a bowl next to the Dad's head. Hard boiled eggs for eyeballs in a bowl on the other side of his head. Add a little oil to the bowl that has the eyeballs in it to lube em up so they're good and slippery. That recipe they have for slime makes great boogers if you add some green food coloring. If you pick up some air hardening clay, you can add it to a the ends of a 2" wooden dowel to create something that feels like an elongated dog bone for a leg bone. I forgot what we used for the heart, it's been too many years. You can use noodles with mashed strawberries for guts. Toss some cooked rice for maggots over the body and literally just let your imagination run wild with anything else you can think of. Add some dry ice for effect if it isn't too expensive and set up a few candles for very soft light for their preview peek before they get blindfolded to be walked through the lab. Now line up the kids to walk through the laboratory one by one. Let them get that peek at the body on the table in very dim light then blindfold them. Guide them through the lab and let them feel everything and explain to them what they are feeling using a lot of really gross adjectives, save the guts with the strawberries for last because that means they'll walk out with bloody hands which really makes them squeal with delight after you walk them out of the lab and take their blind fold off. Now here's where the other Dad comes in. He's waiting outside the lab. After the kid leaves and you walk away, the kid's examining his bloody hands while that second Dad is preparing to chase after the kid while asking for his boogers back. This is why it's good to set up your lab inside your house by your front door. You can lead the kids into the lab through the house and then out the front door where the other Dad goes after them when they least expect it.

I found the idea in a Family Fun magazine and sat down with other Moms and we expanded on the concept to "personalize" the experience for the kids.

We did this many years ago and the kids are all still talking about it. The mummy toilet paper wrap up contest paled by comparison.

Oh, now that is a hoot! I have a combined children's and adult party every year. This will DEFINITELY be done this year. How funny. My DH is a real trooper and he'd love something like that. My next door neighbor will happily comply too.

I'm laughing just picturing this. I can't wait.

That sounds like even more fun than playing the Wicked Witch and jumping out and scaring the living daylights out of both adults and kids.

My gosh! Knowing Mr and Mrs Equil, you have no idea how funny it is to imagine the two of them doing the above.......

I think Equil means sawhorses where she says construction horses......;)

It wasn't just us. I found the idea and cut it out to show everyone and then the Moms sat down and "tweeked" the concept. It was sort of benign and ho hum when I first read about it in that Family Fun magazine but once we started adding our own twist, we really had some fun with it. I was the one who came up with the strawberries in the spaghetti noodles and then the idea of using steamed rice as maggots sprinkled over the sheet was too irresistable to pass up. In total, there were 4 sets of parents involved. All of us very boring and "family next doorish"... until it comes time for Halloween... or 4th of July...or anything we can think of to goof off. I think we've all got major silly bugs in us.

Although the Frankenstein lab was hard to top, we did get some kids good last year by setting out coffins made out of plywood with dummies in them as yard art. What's really funny is that the kids are convinced the dummies are real people so all the kids have to poke at them to see if they're going to get jumped. Once they figure out they're really dummies, they go about the business of being kids. Here's where the fun begins. You sort of wait until all the kids are sitting around the bonfire and then some of us "swapped" places with some of the dummies and hung out motionless waiting. Kids like to run around a lot and with a hundred people, it's sort of hard to keep track of everyone so they had no clue the dummies had been swapped out for real live people. When the kids started running around, we had a que to jump out and grab them when the word coffin bangers to the song Monster mash started playing. I swear some kids needed a change of pants after we jumped out and started grabbing them. You can make these coffins out of refrigerator boxes too. Plywood is kind of expensive.

I have no idea what we're going to do this year. Any ideas?

That's great.

We always play a game where I buy squishy eyeballs and mix them in a bowl of spaghetti with red food die. They have to dig the eyeballs out with their toes.

We also go on a witch hunt and I take the kids for a walk by the park where I tell them a scary story about a man that was eaten by a group of witches in this area and every now and then you can see his ghost in the trees. Well, we have someone in the trees with a flashlight covered with blue cellophane thatcomes on just at the right minute and then two witches come running out from behind other trees.

That's nothing compared to your Frankenstain lab.

I like the idea of digging out eyeballs with their toes.

Yes, the year we had the Frankenstein Lab is hard to beat.

LOL. I wish I could have been there!!!!

I am rolling on the floor! It's taken me a while to catch up on threads and I wondered what topic this thread was going to cover next. So funny! Homegrown peeled grapes make good eyeballs too.

We're a couple of old fuddy duddys. We just hand out candy.

oh! oh! oh! Look what's new in my kitchen!!!! Are ya'll jealous or what??????

My DD is having a slumber party for her bday tonight and I picked all the girls up from school. They were doing a worm compost bin in their science class and this was a gift just for me. I'm a lucky gal.

It's moving to the garage, BTW.

I was all prepared to ask how Phil liked it.....or maybe, IF Phil liked it.

OH MY!!

What a crazy thread I have stumbled across on DG.! :)

I am up late cuz dh had to goto the emergency room,, broken rib.

I cant even read everything here but it sounds like a riot.

I have two little ones and it is sometimes hard to get time to read ..

Can I cheat and ask someone to please tell my if any of the eggs did hatch and what were they? did all of the ones in the box die?

You all sound like a bunch of crazy folks....

I think I belong.. LOL!

flowerlady

Ceejay, he hasn't seen them yet. snicker, snicker.

Welcome, Flowerlady!

Oh, the eggs hatched alright. Are you sure you want to know? If so scroll to the very bottom of this website to see what the babies ended up being....

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/july99.html

Amazing, huh? Like regular spring chickens!

Hope you enjoy as much as we have and keep coming back!

EEEEKkkSS!!! I am a little scared ,, but ohhhh so curious.. I feel like a little kid .
This is crazy! I called the ER and had to give DH another pain pill,, that is the ONLY reason i am up ....he is now sleeping finally I think.. will go look..
and hope I have NO nightmeres tonight..
If I do I might just have to cut you crazies off. LOL
flowerlou.

I hope he's okay! Hope you're okay too. Sometimes it's harder on the caregiver than the victim. Good luck and please, no nightmares!

Awww....don't cut us off 'cause we're looney....it's what makes us fun.

Hope you had gumphffff to look. Were ya surprised? We were!

Gotta go take care of a group of screaming, giggling, supposed to be movie watching girls. this night will never end.

OH MY you folks REALLY are crazy!! So it was just a fungi???? or something??

I am so sorry, I am worn out with lack of sleep , worry for dh, etc...

I will look again tomorrow.... I think I AM in a nightmere,, uh nightmare,, how the heck you spell that anyway??

This is the craziest thread on DG that I have ever found. Are you people always discussing the disgusting??? LOL

Oh puleeze ,,,,, how can I take it off my watch list...



NOT!!

GOODNIGHT YOU CRAZIES!!!!
I have a husband with a broken rib that is finally sleeping!!!! Have to get up in 3 hours to give him 2 more pain killers.... HMMM,, perhaps one for me?? If DG had a contest for the most unusual, and unusally long thread with the craziest of outcome,, I think this is the winner. It is GOLD. Shall we suggest??




Have a wonderful weekend and if I dont see your weird stuff for the next week, bless you all for Easter is coming.... I thinks you might need it.


LOL!!!!!!!! Truly a smile on my face. I have this feeling you will be back.

maybe.

flowerlou

Kristi's fungus was the last one - the one that looks like an orange quadripus. (Well, it had four "legs" so it couldn't be octopus!)

Uh oh,

thanks Equil. He figured out the pillow thing already. He is really having a hard time. They say the first week is the worst. It happened last tues. evening.
He is just in so much pain, and is exhausted.
Thanks for thinking about him with the tip.
flowerlou

I've broken mine a few times. The first 10 days or so are horrible and then after that it's bad but not unbearable for another week or so and then it starts getting much better after a month or so.

Glad he found the pillow trick on his own rather than going through the first few days wondering when he was going to break another one. Broken ribs are really a raw deal. No way to set them.

thanks Equil. He is just always moving ,, he finds a somewhat acceptable place to sit, then he needs to walk or stand.
Another bad thing about this is he is a self employed working contractor.
No work,, no pay.
His appetite is really down.
Tuesday evening will be one week.

Thanks for the timeline to feel better.
Flowerlou