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Post by Grassy on Jun 29, 2019 17:40:52 GMT -5
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! I am BESIDE MYSELF with glee! I am positively aquiver with excitement! TOADS! They are only about the size of a dime right now, but Sid collected a few so I could pet them and hold them. I am so excited!
TOADS TOADS LOVELY TOADS!
I wish they weren't so scared of me, but they just don't know me. Soon we'll be buddies.
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Post by Huronna on Jun 30, 2019 9:28:11 GMT -5
Don't you get warts touching a toad? Oh that's an old wive's tale isn't it.
There was one year when I was in Puerto Rico we had a toad explosion. It lasted about two weeks and I swear they were everywhere. I remember going to visit a friend in their apartment complex and was afraid to get out of my car because they were everywhere. Now I wonder why that was and it never happened again
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Post by Anita on Jun 30, 2019 11:47:10 GMT -5
That's funny. I have never experienced toad explosions, lol. Back in the day we used to go to the pond at the end of Grandpa's property and collect tadpoles and mom would let us put them in a fish tank until they were big enough to jump. The first one that jumped OUT was the last time we could do it inside. From then on they had to be out in the yard. Lol
Wonderful memories.
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Post by Grassy on Jun 30, 2019 16:03:14 GMT -5
Had it been terribly rainy?
When I lived in Georgia, we had monsoon rains and toad and frogs and salamanders were everywhere. I had a blast playing with all the critters.
Such happy memories for all of us.
But Junebugs? Nope. Not for all the nopes that noped in nopeland.
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Post by Huronna on Jun 30, 2019 16:29:18 GMT -5
We have a season for "lovebugs", not the same as June bugs but just as pesky.
We Joe and I drove over to see Betsy in May, they were rampant.
His car was black (it's really silver) even after going to a car wash we had to pressure wash his car.
And there were times we had to stop while driving, just to clean off the windshield as it was covered with them
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Post by Grassy on Jun 30, 2019 17:12:23 GMT -5
Yuck!
Right now the Mayflies are being yucky around here. They get so bad they have to close bridges and roads because they just pile up. Mayflies are terribly greasy and can cause road accidents.
Bleh!
Are "lovebugs" Palmetto bugs?
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Post by susy on Jun 30, 2019 17:59:19 GMT -5
I always loved toads and frogs too.
We have a stink bug problem here.
This is the third year now and they
come inside for the winter and fly
around the lights when it gets dark.
They hide behind photos on the walls
and anything where they can hibernate.
Very few things nauseate me but the
smell of a stink bug is horrible. |
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Post by Huronna on Jun 30, 2019 18:07:51 GMT -5
Palmetto bugs are like huge cockroaches
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Post by Grassy on Jun 30, 2019 18:57:22 GMT -5
Ewwww cockroaches! Yuck-O! I have never seen a Palmetto bug. Now I definitely don't want to. Do you have scorpions in Florida? We had them in Georgia. They were small, though. I gave them wide berth.
Stinkbugs yuck yuck yuck! They do smell awful!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 20:42:27 GMT -5
I use to catch frogs when I was a kid. Here in Iowa we have snapping turtles all over the place.
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Post by Grassy on Jun 30, 2019 22:36:16 GMT -5
I am afraid snapping turtles would bite me,but I love box turtles. We have oodles of turtles up here in Minnesota.
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Post by Huronna on Jun 30, 2019 23:06:22 GMT -5
This is getting to be quite buggy. Ha ha
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Post by Grassy on Jun 30, 2019 23:17:52 GMT -5
LOL!
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