Lepidoptera

I went to the International Student Organization meeting this afternoon ostensibly to volunteer for the check-in week but really because if you sign up to chaperone the trip to Washington DC, they let you go for free. And free is good. Do you know what's even better? The fact that you don't even have to hang out with them once you are there! They told us that we could go do whatever and just to be sure that we don't miss the bus ride home. Sweet!

I was so excited about Jarcy's that I forgot to mention my purchase at the yard sale. Now, what's the most useless thing I could have possibly bought?

Old-school prepared slides! Wow! I was able to get three boxes (that's thirty-six slides of fun) for only a dollar. What a bargain!





Nematoda is the perennial favorite.








I feel like this should be Silkworm Newly-hatched Larva, but if it was made in Japan I'm not going to criticize their hyphen placement.






Some of the items sounded like ingredients in a dastardly witch's stew. Other favorites: Scales of Butterfly Wing, Egg of Sea Urchin, and Spicule of Sea Cucumber.




I was enjoying a pleasant stroll to the library the other day and came across this monster here. Wow! Who could pass this up? He was the size of a clothespin! Unfortunately, I was wearing a skirt so I had to get down on my hands and knees as to not give the construction workers on Curtin a free show. I kept fearing that this thing would come to life and bite my hand off.


While I was down on the ground, I noticed another bug that wasn't quite dead yet. I bet he was stepped on less than five minutes later. I'm glad I got a picture of him still intact and upright.



That's all for now. Ariel is over and hopefully we'll be watching a movie in a short while. Ta.