Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Zzzzzzzz...

The Walking Stick Insect
of South America often loses an antenna or leg—but
always grows a new appendage. Often nature makes a
mistake and a new antenna grows where the leg was lost.
—Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Eventually the
most accident-prone
or war-weary
walking sticks
are entirely
reduced to antennae
with which they
pick their way
sensitively,
appalled by
everything’s
intensity.
-Kay Ryan

6 comments:

  1. Cute bug, fj.

    ©(:^)

    That's a lady with her hair up in a bun. I made it up.

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  2. Fascinating! -- the INSECT that is. The "singer" has one of those weak mouths that looks as though it might start to drool any second. EEEEUW!

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