We periodically feed this cat who lives a few doors down. She tends to eat and run, so we named her Dine and Dash. Or, if you prefer, Dine ‘n’ Dash.
Yesterdat, I was working upstairs and I heard her downstairs, yowling at the top of her little cat lungs. I eventually went down to see what the fuss was about. She’d returned the feeding favour:
It was an enormous locust or cricket or grasshopper. I don’t know how to tell the difference. But seriously, it was as long as my hand. I could have hired this one out to do stunt work in that Hilary Swank movie. Get a million of these badboys, and you’ve got yourself a plague of Biblical proportion. I searched my memory, and this is probably twice the size of the next biggest insect I’ve ever seen outside of a zoo.
As cat’s will, Dine ‘n’ Dash grew bored with her prey, and didn’t want to eat it or otherwise finish it off. I gently swept it into our dust pan and deposited it on the deck. It walked, with the plodding pace of a war veteran in chronic pain, into the fields beyond our house.
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OMG, I saw the same thing at my house. I live in Alabama and saw one last week. It was gigantic and I couldn’t tell if it was a locust or grasshopper either. They must be seasonal or something.
Aren’t you glad the biggest bug you’ve ever seen there was a dead cricket and not a living (insert scarier insect here) and that all of your charity feeding (good karma) resulted in the local bug killing cat repaying your kindness… she doesn’t do snuggles, she’s a trained killer, kindness repaid, for now.
“Outside scary” rule clearly does not apply in Malta.
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Funky! I just got done fighting with the biggest hornet I’ve ever seen (second time I’ve seen one, but still!). Looked more like the so called Asian giant hornet than the regular ol’ DC kind.
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