[celstu1]

I forgot to share this with you guys.

this is utterly disgusting but after researching it, kind of neat.

my bfs neighbors cat keeps coming into his yard and killing mice and leaving them in the driveway or by a door. Well bf told me something about one of the mice that sickened me... and then I saw it first hand myself the other day.

My boys had thier nose to the ground very intensely on sunday and when I went to investigate it was a dead mouse.... so I quickly put them in the house until bf could come get rid of the mouse. Well the mouse started moving as I was watching it. And from underneath it came 3 of these bugs, at first I thought they were bees so I jumped back but then I realized they were not and started watching them. They literally MOVED the mouse about 2 ft per 15 mins. Small little beetles. It was disgustingly fascinating.

so I looked it up online and found out what these bugs are. They are called American burying beetles. I won't get into what they do with dead mice since that is repulsive, but I will tell you this.... I ended up emailing the national bird and wildlife dept. These beetles are on their endangered list and have not been reported as being seen in NH ever! I have not heard back from them yet but Im suspecting I will. We did not touch the beetles but we did get rid of the mouse.

So its kind of cool in a gross way! I hate bugs... I don't know why I keep stumbling across things like this... (remember my spider post a couple weeks ago??) oh yeah, my pet spider is gone now, for about a week and a half now. Must be too cold for her.