Stick Bug R.I.P.
Another of our original stick bugs went toes up today. It had, however, fulfilled its biological imperative: we now have more baby stick insects than we can count easily. We’re still not sure what to do with them once they start outgrowing their cage!Some Numbers (June 4, 2008)
Some numbers related to my three previous posts: Total Number of Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August: 4,234Number of Pledged Delegates: 3,409Number of Superdelegates: 825Number of Delegates Needed to Clinch the Democratic Nomination: 2,118Number...More Stick Buggage
We had despaired of our stick bugs’ ever having babies. My older son, whose science teacher had given him the three stick bugs that I described in an earlier post, had told me that one of his friend’s stick bugs had had babies very soon after they were...Stick Bug Envy
My older son has three stick insects (order Phasmatodea) living in a vivarium. He calls them “stick bugs.” They were given to him by his science teacher last fall. We figured they were going to part of some school science project, but so far there’s...