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Odyssey of a Locust

bulbous eyes bulging chest perched on my screen the ugliest thing I’d ever seen beat its wings abruptly buzzing robustly flew away hamburger for highway ~ odyssey’s finale

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Suzanne Delaney

Date: 8/15/2024 6:08:00 AM

They grow and shed their complete shell like a snake to accommodate their body. I have found empty shells still clinging to a tree trunks SuZ

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/15/2024 7:07:00 PM

Never thought of that angle, Suzanne: Locusts and snakes // Go together like mudpies and mudcakes!

John Lawless

Date: 8/15/2024 6:04:00 AM

as kids we used to catch "grasshoppers". Haven't seen any around in decades...and the cities pigeon population has been greatly reduced by the influx of high rise dwelling hawks....ah well, nature will adapt

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/15/2024 7:06:00 PM

Yes. Nature will adapt... unlike the crazed left-wing loonies, whom climate change has completely unhinged...