First, I will admit I am kind of strange, so bear with me. I have this affinity for critters. All critters. And they to me. I guess I just trust them more than I do human beings. No agendas. They just survive the best they can.
Anyway....last year, I found a stick bug with a missing leg, hanging on the side of my bedroom wall outside the door. I played with it for awhile and let it crawl all over my fingers and hands and I marveled at how much it looked just like a stick. Then I took it to the back of the garden..way back in the back of the yard and put it in a tree where birds would not find it. It grasped the branch I put it on and I forgot about it. 2 days later...I found the same stick bug in my bedroom on the wall. Same markings. Yes, they have mottled designs on their bodies and I had a good look at it when I was playing with it before taking it back to a safe place. I recognized it immediately by looking at the markings, wondering how it got from way back there IN to my room and on my wall over my bed....and why it came back to visit. So I played with it again, then set it back outside where I put it 2 days before.
Tonight....about half an hour ago..I went outside to have half a cig before bed. I didn't see it until I closed the door on it. I went in the bathroom for a minute, then went back outside and when I opened the door, it fell. Half of it was INSIDE the door, the other half out. It was bent in half. When I opened the door, it fell. My first thought was "oh no. I killed a stick bug" and I picked it up. It moved. No guts were hanging out, no break in the body except a dent where the door was closed against the lower 1 inch of its lower body. This guy is about 5 inches long so he or she is a big one. Solid green..no mottle. I have no clue if it is the same stick bug from last year but it's still a stick bug. So...I hold it in my hand and gently rub where the dent is. The fluids inside it's body begin to flow again and it plumps back out so I am breathing a sigh of relief. No damage that I can see except it probably is sore...and it is missing a leg. As I hold it and gently massage it's body on the dent...I can actually see the change...dent is disappearing and it is a full plump body again and it is more perky. So I take it outside to the potted tree I have next to my door and set it carefully on a branch big enough it can grasp...and it grabs on but at first does not want to leave my hand. I debated on whether to keep it in the house tonight where it is warmer, but it is not very cold out tonight and I think it will be better out there. But if I wake up in the morning and find it on my wall....I'm going to have to seriously wonder what message it has for me because that would be a unique coincidence in my opinion. I did look it up and it says:
ANIMAL Teachers: Crawling Ones: Stick Insect! Walking Stick! Stick Bug
If it is NOT in my bedroom when I wake up, I will check to make sure it is ok or even still on the tree branch I placed it on. I am just thankful the door being closed on it and cutting it's body in half but not where it broke off is now the way it should be. I would take a pic but I ran out of batteries for my camera.
Yeah. I know. Weirdo Gracie.
Anyway....last year, I found a stick bug with a missing leg, hanging on the side of my bedroom wall outside the door. I played with it for awhile and let it crawl all over my fingers and hands and I marveled at how much it looked just like a stick. Then I took it to the back of the garden..way back in the back of the yard and put it in a tree where birds would not find it. It grasped the branch I put it on and I forgot about it. 2 days later...I found the same stick bug in my bedroom on the wall. Same markings. Yes, they have mottled designs on their bodies and I had a good look at it when I was playing with it before taking it back to a safe place. I recognized it immediately by looking at the markings, wondering how it got from way back there IN to my room and on my wall over my bed....and why it came back to visit. So I played with it again, then set it back outside where I put it 2 days before.
Tonight....about half an hour ago..I went outside to have half a cig before bed. I didn't see it until I closed the door on it. I went in the bathroom for a minute, then went back outside and when I opened the door, it fell. Half of it was INSIDE the door, the other half out. It was bent in half. When I opened the door, it fell. My first thought was "oh no. I killed a stick bug" and I picked it up. It moved. No guts were hanging out, no break in the body except a dent where the door was closed against the lower 1 inch of its lower body. This guy is about 5 inches long so he or she is a big one. Solid green..no mottle. I have no clue if it is the same stick bug from last year but it's still a stick bug. So...I hold it in my hand and gently rub where the dent is. The fluids inside it's body begin to flow again and it plumps back out so I am breathing a sigh of relief. No damage that I can see except it probably is sore...and it is missing a leg. As I hold it and gently massage it's body on the dent...I can actually see the change...dent is disappearing and it is a full plump body again and it is more perky. So I take it outside to the potted tree I have next to my door and set it carefully on a branch big enough it can grasp...and it grabs on but at first does not want to leave my hand. I debated on whether to keep it in the house tonight where it is warmer, but it is not very cold out tonight and I think it will be better out there. But if I wake up in the morning and find it on my wall....I'm going to have to seriously wonder what message it has for me because that would be a unique coincidence in my opinion. I did look it up and it says:
ANIMAL Teachers: Crawling Ones: Stick Insect! Walking Stick! Stick Bug
If it is NOT in my bedroom when I wake up, I will check to make sure it is ok or even still on the tree branch I placed it on. I am just thankful the door being closed on it and cutting it's body in half but not where it broke off is now the way it should be. I would take a pic but I ran out of batteries for my camera.
Yeah. I know. Weirdo Gracie.
