So how do you make an insect play dead? Watch this!
Actually, this does explain a few things that I am sure everyone out there would like to know.
I mean, they are alive and I’m sure serve a greater purpose (if only on the food chain) than to horrify or entertain us, right? I mean, they are only insects, just like animals in films, which I’ve read a lot are injured/killed that are just not noticed/overlooked by the AHA, but come on! It’s for our entertainment! We have rights, too ya know.
Yes, that was all sarcasm. I’m not really an animal/insect/whatever activist, but then again, where does one draw that proverbial line between what is 'human'e, and what is not? *sigh*
Maybe CGI (though it may put some/many people [and who knows, maybe even actors in the future] out of business, yet opens doors for others?) is a really good thing in some instances (although, there is just something about actual physical special effects that can’t be duplicated. Or so say I.)
Anyway, this brought back traumatic memories of my ant farm. Because I told my Mom I noticed they seemed to cart off their dead and bury them (maybe it was just cold storage, as food. Dunno. Didn’t think that far ahead when little. The ‘they’ve gone to heaven’ was enough for me.), my mom took a pencil and killed a few to see if my observation was correct (yes, they went to ‘ant heaven’. *rolls eyes*)
I’ve ‘hatched’ Monarch Butterflies and Praying Mantis (also had tadpoles.) A couple years ago we ordered Ladybird(bug)s because they eat a lot of other insects, to put in our garden, but they all flew away.
And I don’t buy it that ALL their ‘houses were on fire’story!
And, it’s good to know John Goodman has ‘the feet of a ballerina’.
OMG, female Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula can live 20-25 years! Who knew?!
Insect art!
(Watch the video!)
Actually, this does explain a few things that I am sure everyone out there would like to know.
I mean, they are alive and I’m sure serve a greater purpose (if only on the food chain) than to horrify or entertain us, right? I mean, they are only insects, just like animals in films, which I’ve read a lot are injured/killed that are just not noticed/overlooked by the AHA, but come on! It’s for our entertainment! We have rights, too ya know.
Yes, that was all sarcasm. I’m not really an animal/insect/whatever activist, but then again, where does one draw that proverbial line between what is 'human'e, and what is not? *sigh*
Maybe CGI (though it may put some/many people [and who knows, maybe even actors in the future] out of business, yet opens doors for others?) is a really good thing in some instances (although, there is just something about actual physical special effects that can’t be duplicated. Or so say I.)
Anyway, this brought back traumatic memories of my ant farm. Because I told my Mom I noticed they seemed to cart off their dead and bury them (maybe it was just cold storage, as food. Dunno. Didn’t think that far ahead when little. The ‘they’ve gone to heaven’ was enough for me.), my mom took a pencil and killed a few to see if my observation was correct (yes, they went to ‘ant heaven’. *rolls eyes*)
I’ve ‘hatched’ Monarch Butterflies and Praying Mantis (also had tadpoles.) A couple years ago we ordered Ladybird(bug)s because they eat a lot of other insects, to put in our garden, but they all flew away.
And I don’t buy it that ALL their ‘houses were on fire’story!
And, it’s good to know John Goodman has ‘the feet of a ballerina’.
OMG, female Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula can live 20-25 years! Who knew?!
Insect art!
(Watch the video!)