Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 303 Location: outside looking in
11 Nov 2005, 8:47 pm
The last breaths of an unbloggable
week were being drawn.
Watched the DVDed first season
of the Fox series “24” in three days;
painted something to watch it dry.
Mired in malaise,
trying to fit square words
into round sentences,
my eye was caught
by movement on the floor.
A moth with one and a half wings
crawled into the halo of my desk light.
Scooped up and placed on the porch,
the yellow angular stripes
of its black wings were memorable.
Looking online for an identification key,
I was bewildered by unlearned jargon
and over ten thousand known species
in America north of Mexico;
fourteen hundred in North Dakota alone.
Then a search of “moth” and “Maryland”
found Bob Patterson’s life
list of five hundred plus photographs
with improvised English names.
A quick scan and a few guesses later
I saw my moth, both wings whole,
Apantesis phalerata,
The Banded Tiger Moth.
I returned to the porch
to a memory.
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The last breaths of an unbloggable week were being drawn. Watched the DVDed first season of the Fox series “24” in three days; painted something to watch it dry.
Joined: 1 Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 16 Location: london
17 Nov 2005, 6:10 am
I think that the only insects I like is something I can't think about mainly because I think that I can't remember if I like them or not, so as to speak that I don't realy like any insects, especially not spiders(!), and I do really hate all of them!
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Joined: 1 Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 16 Location: london
17 Nov 2005, 6:11 am
I think that the only insects I like is something I can't think about mainly because I think that I can't remember if I like them or not, so as to speak that I don't realy like any insects, especially not spiders(!), and I really do hate all of them!
Joined: 1 Mar 2005 Age: 62 Gender: Male Posts: 651 Location: Ottawa, Canada
17 Nov 2005, 9:39 pm
I was into collecting bugs when I was a kid. Fascinating creatures. Anybody familiar with Claude Brossard's TV programs?
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