My readers might have noticed that my posts reflect rather immediate and intense worries or hobbies. Some are more or less recurent...
Today's topic: what to do with a kid outside.
Look at the trees... No, don't climb nor tear the muss/lichen. It grow north: on the side of the polar bears. Yes, darling, this is the Pic Saint-Loup, it is north. Oh, you see some snow up there? Maybe. Polar bears too? Aha, you want to go up there watch the cubs? Well, maybe when you will be a little bit older and climb by yourself.
The wasp nest...
No darling, it isn't paper. Please don't crush it. Please. Pleeeaaase!
For lonesome cowboys, no wasps: the nest of the potter wasp.
European rhinoceros beetles.
I found 4 almost intact ones drowned after a strong rain in a molting trunk. Birds had left parts of bodies around there.
Yes darling, the daddy looks like a rhinoceros. No need dissecting it now. No, really...
Praying mantis...
Five caterpillars of Old World Swallowtail butterfly on a fennel plant...
Yes darling we saw bigger ones in May. Look one of they is taking its pyjama off, it was too small for the caterpillar now, the little animal is growing like you...
Yes yes yes we have read the book... It can repell the hungry birds with its red horns... You want to see the horns? I'll tickle it gently... not afraid at all... this one already knows we are cool... Oh look... No don't touch the plant. No. NO. Go home. Watch where you walk. Grrrr.
And here starts the metamorphosis... the caterpillar changes into a larva in a shell, and then into a machaon...
My kid prefers big animals.
Like bears.
BUT there's always a way to make someone watch the grass!
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