tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post2118505003725186551..comments2007-08-12T17:14:29.405-05:00Julie Zickefoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-90228454315583071922007-08-12T17:14:00.000-05:002007-08-12T17:14:00.000-05:00Very cool discovery, but as one who spends a lot of time fixing rotten houses - that rot often first revealed by the appearance of carpenter ants who live in rotten wood - I hope there isn't some rotting going on in your house!MojoManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11283343683800473324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-58697248748253607342007-08-04T22:12:00.000-05:002007-08-04T22:12:00.000-05:00Better your house than mine, Julie:0)<BR/>Lord have mercy! Mommmeeeeee!Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00548755592157386484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-7499539510845511032007-08-04T12:29:00.000-05:002007-08-04T12:29:00.000-05:00Yes, Bugs can begin to grow on you. I came across a wheel bug a few weeks ago. After coming back from vacation--guess who's still hunting on the gum tree out back--yep, he's still there. Pretty soon I'll have to name him, I think. As it is, I greeted him, "Hi, there, how've things been goin'?"ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888238636692649668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-5219993040672578842007-08-04T11:14:00.000-05:002007-08-04T11:14:00.000-05:00What a cool discovery. I like your description of Bill's voice conveying the gross, but interesting find.robin andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13390482190562312928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-67476368512204086762007-08-04T08:08:00.000-05:002007-08-04T08:08:00.000-05:00Hi Julie,<BR/>I realized sadly I will never attain Science Chimp status either because roaches are the one insect that truly gross me out. Picking up a monarch caterpillar is about as far as I feel comfortable doing.RuthieJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11663411478574192825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-52778574554516206412007-08-04T00:22:00.000-05:002007-08-04T00:22:00.000-05:00Kaufmann, that is. Geez, spelling really suffers by the time I've had my second Bigfoot.catbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817359455864023690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-46204725747062123732007-08-04T00:09:00.000-05:002007-08-04T00:09:00.000-05:00My only objection to the Kauffman butterfly guide is the lack of larvae; I'd love to know whose caterpillars are whose.catbirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817359455864023690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-53090806680785344192007-08-03T13:04:00.000-05:002007-08-03T13:04:00.000-05:00This is right up our alley. Just this morning in west Tennessee my 6 year old grand daughter discovered a huge beetle with pinchers on its head. She and her brother got their magnifing glasses out to check it out. They have been feeding the spiders in their webs at night. Catching small moths, etc for food. I read recently that rural children are better at science than urban. DUH?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-43730932738026365212007-08-03T12:23:00.000-05:002007-08-03T12:23:00.000-05:00I do love the new Kaufman guides! It has been a fabulous new addition to the library at Camp Arrowhead. Kids are always bringing me insects I can't identify straight away...so I hand them a book to learn how fun it is. I love my job! The mammal guide has been very helpful as well when the kids find skulls and bones or tracks. It is great to see kids becoming science chimps! <BR/>Love you,<BR/>Lizelizabirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282998561977940826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-83413723131784725372007-08-03T12:10:00.000-05:002007-08-03T12:10:00.000-05:00Aunt Petunia,<BR/><BR/> We didn't dare show the roach to Bacon. He is death on them, and camel crickets--he paws them until they come apart, and then chews them for good measure. Blaa!<BR/><BR/> I keep a life list for butterflies, and with the new Kaufmann guide, I think I should probably keep a bug list, too. I certainly know when I'm seeing something new, but have yet to formalize it with a list. It would be quite a job, given how many insects are out there. One I'll probably never get around to. We've had a few Pandorus sphinx moths around this summer, but my laptop ate my pictures of it. RATS!!Julie Zickefoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-32247722832478084292007-08-03T11:52:00.000-05:002007-08-03T11:52:00.000-05:00I love your roach -this from someone who bought her daughter two Hissing Cockroaches! I found one very like this one last winter in some Palmettos in Florida-think its the the same? I will definately look for the new insect guide. Bugs and butterflies seem to be my thing this summer. I have the Kaufmann Butterfly and I am happily photographing butterflies.Janicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-34203979357816228292007-08-03T11:44:00.000-05:002007-08-03T11:44:00.000-05:00Zickie, in the immortal words of Calvin (of "& Hobbes" fame)... "Ick. Ack. Ugh!"<BR/><BR/>I luvs ya, sweetie, but I draws the line at "'croaches," as my baby boy Rudy used to call 'em. (27 years ago when he WAS a baby boy.) I'll stick to the birds and mouses and such. And, of course, the puppehs. What did the ol' Chet Baker think about this little critter?Aunt Petunianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-82089677674145555512007-08-03T10:51:00.000-05:002007-08-03T10:51:00.000-05:00I'm not usually a bug person, but this was one great article Julie. You sure drew me right into your science chimp world. Very educational.. and THERE ARE FLYING COCKROACHES??????? EGADS!!!<BR/>I'd better get one of those field guides pronto cause I live in the woods!Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12877365453453071691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-69776871254680716222007-08-03T09:48:00.000-05:002007-08-03T09:48:00.000-05:00Sorry Zick, I couldn't even be considered a science lemur like Catbird...that sucker would have been a grease spot on the bottom of my shoe if I found it in my house! All the while I would have been screaming loud enough to alert the neighbors! Just can't get my mind around interesting bugs...well maybe butterfies and moths but never roaches or spiders. YEEEK ...I think I need a Chet fix to make it all better.Janeymspupswilltravel.tripod.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-63417785213624997692007-08-03T09:12:00.000-05:002007-08-03T09:12:00.000-05:00Um...<BR/><BR/>EEEEeewwww!!<BR/><BR/>You could put a leash on that thing!<BR/>We love that Kaufmann field guide at our house. My kids scour it looking for the funny lines.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09187035706322695138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-32736546554873111612007-08-03T08:13:00.000-05:002007-08-03T08:13:00.000-05:00Cool bug!!! Ryan would have wanted to keep it as a pet or add it to his insect collection. We used to have the hissing ones and it didn't bother me to handle them but the flying wood roaches give me the creeps. I will have to get that book for Ryan because beetles are one of the hardest insects to identify. We have never found a good reference. <BR/>I love that I never know what will be posted on this blog from day to day. LoriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-28698889145651346332007-08-03T07:57:00.000-05:002007-08-03T07:57:00.000-05:00The key word is "woodland." If roaches continue to be woodland creatures they are indeed harmless. Problem occurs when they want to inhabit my house instead of the woodlands. Sorry, I simply cannot live with them and I have to flush one who enters my space. She might find her way back if I return her to the woodlands.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-8762878309045064562007-08-03T07:51:00.000-05:002007-08-03T07:51:00.000-05:00I've gotten a tremendous amount of use from that book so far. I love it. My dad has a friend who raises those Madagascar hissing cockroaches and sells them as pets at pet shows for $2 each. They're a hot item and sell better than the snakes he raises.Patrick Belardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080082715363887351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-48376324768430605632007-08-03T07:32:00.000-05:002007-08-03T07:32:00.000-05:00Wendi: Beautiful roach are two words not often paired. Thank you.<BR/>Catbird: Yes, I petted it. It was as slick as newly waxed car.<BR/><BR/>For me, learning what it was and how it lives neutralized the kneejerk reaction which was omygodthatsthebiggestdamnroachi've<BR/>everseeneeewww!<BR/>I will confess that the flying wood<BR/>roaches that come in at night give me the heebiejeebies--the way they land on the wall and scuttle behind a carefully framed watercolor. And I moosh them.Julie Zickefoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-30235234692369756742007-08-03T07:27:00.000-05:002007-08-03T07:27:00.000-05:00Rondeau Ric raises an interesting point--do people have life lists for bugs?KGMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165941950953938943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-43266674253637790862007-08-03T07:25:00.000-05:002007-08-03T07:25:00.000-05:00Great bug, I just ate up your blog!<BR/>As a kid I liked creepy crawlies and most things nature, then I was institutionalized in a big bureaucracy and ignored all things wild.<BR/>Got back into it 12 years ago and now live in a Carolinian forest with skins, salamanders, snakes et al.<BR/>Congratulations on a life bug. <BR/>RRRondeau Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13740342799585280444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-46097520332370921772007-08-03T07:14:00.000-05:002007-08-03T07:14:00.000-05:00You didn't mention if you named it. Although I kind of share your excitement (because I do like bugs), I'd rather not see one in my bedroom. Spiders, centipedes and roaches make my skin crawl. ICK, ZICK!<BR/><BR/>I'll put that guide on my list!Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02040099513110890878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-34232720244243045852007-08-03T06:40:00.000-05:002007-08-03T06:40:00.000-05:00I'm excited about your creature. I can get excited about almost anything, with a little explanation. What is the most important, is that you (and Bill) put aside the almost automatic response to crush & flush--or we might all have lost seeing this.<BR/>Thanks!<BR/>And I'm taking your recommendation of putting Kaufman's book on my shopping list at the bookstore.ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07888238636692649668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-90244108421448636952007-08-03T05:31:00.000-05:002007-08-03T05:31:00.000-05:00Beautiful roach! It reminded me of the beetle we hosted here briefly last summer, don't know if this link will work but: <BR/>P1010210.JPG (694.0 KB)<BR/>I need that guide book so I can pin down an i.d., I've seen them called staghorn beetles and rhinocerous beetles but I believe it was the latter. (Fiona and I called him Timothy.) Glossy, chocolate-colored and exquisite in every detail.<BR/>Wendijemkagilynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-60577292751587292632007-08-03T05:26:00.000-05:002007-08-03T05:26:00.000-05:00All I could think about was the huge cockroaches that ruled the dorms in college and were brazen enough to climb into everything and when found just stand and stare you down. I'm...err... excited for you? Really, (shivering) I am! :c)Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057094040409159429noreply@blogger.com