Weevil
This little weevil did the strangest thing. It was crawling across the kitchen counter last night, and I splashed some water at it, and the water flipped it on its back. Instead of scrabbling to its feet, it simply splayed its feet wide, like it was waiting to grab onto something.
I brought a toothbrush near. It latched on!
I’m kind of a jerk, though: I tonked the toothbrush on the side of the sink, knocking the weevil back off again. It landed on its back and calmly proceeded to repeat the previous behavior! This time I ran and grabbed the camera. By the time I took the picture above, it had started to relax its legs closed.
A touch with the toothbrush woke it up right back up, though, and again it latched on. So I took a picture of that, too.
To those of you wondering, of course that’s not my toothbrush.
It’s my wife’s.
So much for being on an even keel again with posting.... completely overwhelmed IRL right now.
spiritualtramp said,
September 30, 2008 @ 7:35 am
What a considerate husband!
chaliren said,
September 30, 2008 @ 8:31 am
He is very considerate, though the weevil might not think so. That’s my toothbrush I use for cleaning the gunge around my kitchen sink and hard to scrub places.