A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI
Archive for the ‘Antlions’ Category.
Last year, I had an entry about ant lions, with pictures of the larval form (which digs pits in sandy soil and grabs unwary insects that stumble ino them). Well, here is the adult form, that S_ just caught for me out on the front porch:
Every morning when I bicycle to work, I go past “Houghton Medical Arts”, a private clinic. For a long time, their sign out in front has said “Try Acupuncture for Pain”, and whenever I saw this, i would think of a scenario kind of like this:
Acupuncturist: Now hold still . . . [Jab]
Patient: Ow! Hey, that hurt!
A: Well, what did you expect? Didn’t you read the sign? [Jab]
P: Ow!
[and so on]