and just to say first, i am looking forward to getting over to all the comments of the last few days. I'd been doing that last eve when the Lightning came…so….looking forward.
Tay is on Yet Another Mission. All over, everywhere, she's digging these small holes. At first i didn't understand, but it has become clear because i watched her this morning before i went to work. She goes about sniffing sniffing sniffing and suddenly STOPS, nose pressed to the earth and the begins to dig. Only takes a minute and there we are. A big fat unattractive (to me) grub. Same ones i have found in the Compost. Same ones in that one raised bed along the outside fence. I have tried to ignore them. They are BIG and well, grubs. And now i watch as she unearths them. There are a LOT. She unearths them, snifs them and then walks away.
So, i decided to Stand and Face and i googled Big White Grubs:
yup. Green Fruit Beetle cotinis mintabilis Yup. larvae. This summer there were MANY, motoring around through the air in slo motion. The kids and i used to call them flying olives. They are like blimps. They fly slow and low and are clumsey, they bang into the house, fall to the earth with impact, reorganize and take off again. Why there were so many here this summer, since i have no producing fruit trees which the adult beetle feeds on???? Because i have
COMPOST. this is what their "babies", those homely big white grubs NEED. One of the sites i looked at put it this way: feed on decomposing organic material along with your worms and other members of your Microherd.
they do no damage. They do not eat roots of plants. The down side of them is that they turn into those Flying Olives who feed on fruit. but for me, they are actually beneficial because they do Enormous work to convert the plant material and manure into EARTH.
But there's more. While searching, i saw this. These very same grubs are sold, ten to a package for live feed for pet chameleons and lizards. one site, 3.99 pounds…british…for a 10 pack. So actually, if i could get into it (which i can't but it's a fun thought), Tay and i could go into business. Like with Truffles, yes? A grub sniffing dog.
and inbetween, she enjoyed her corn cob to the fullest. I CANNOT imagine the scenario in her mind as she prances around with it held high like the greatest Prize of All.
And tomorrow begins the First of the Stretch, the Expanse of FIVE DAYS. I got Everything i could think of in town i need to day when i went to work for the Old Cowboy. There should be NO reason to go back into town until Monday. Am watching self.
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