My friend Miklos stopped by yesterday to borrow my sewing machine. As he was leaving we were startled by a huge beetle on my front porch.
I mean, he was reallyreally big!
Miklos is an artist who has taught me never to go anywhere without my camera.
I’d like to add to that. Never go anywhere without your camera and some kind of prop in your pocket. As I raced inside to get my camera, Miklos called, “Where are your nuns? Bring the nuns!”
They were exactly what we needed for this situation.
Once I identified the bug with the help of Google, I called the state entomologist to see if it was an invasive species and if I needed to do anything about it. (Like kill it and send it somewhere. Yeesh. I was hoping to avoid that.) He asked if we had a lot of pine or spruce trees around and said that they like to hang out near those. “They’re kind of big and scary, but they’re harmless. It’s the longhorn beetles that are very shiny that we have to worry about.”
Still, I was glad to have some nuns on hand.
Barbara S Fernald Jewelry 
OMG that’s hilarious. Thank God for the nuns! That is one freaky looking bug. I’m kinda liking that stripey rock in the background though… I LOVE stripey rocks!
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It was a little freaky. We are fortunate to have way more stripy rocks around than we have bugs like that!
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that is one SERIOUS bug, sister!
xoxo
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That’s what we thought!
xoxo
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I love this stuff.
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Ha ha. Thanks Ted!
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lol, I totally would have freaked out if I had seen that bug on the porch. After squealing like a girl, I’d have totally fetched the camera for photos. I don’t think I’d have been brave enough to put the miniatures out near him, though.
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Well, at least he didn’t move too fast, so we got braver and braver with the little photo props.
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