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Fek me! What kind of foul creature has blue blood? I mean, really. Blue. Blood. WTF? as the kids would say. I hit it with my spade and cut it in half – I didn’t mean to but I didn’t see it. I saw the blue goo oozing from it, though! Fair made me shudder it did 🙂
Been a weird few days for wee beatsies – aside from the alien there, I also found a little mouse in my compost (I nearly hit him with a spade by accident!) and some strange, but quite beautiful, brown grubs. One thing I’m hoping not see much more of is slugs following my application of Nemaslug – that’ll teach the little gits to eat my beans!
In other garden news, I’ve built a mini-greenhouse for my toms and lettuce (they are much happier now) and moved the heaps of soil from the garden to a couple of dalek type composters. I’ve also replanted my beans, rocket and radishes, all of which the blasted slugs wolfed down 🙂
Bugger! I’ve left my seeds outside and the light is going – got to dash!
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Tongue Twozzled Quiksilva said,
June 4, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood
(And why is my maths question 3+0?!? Do i register as that stupid?!? Maybe I don’t really want an answer to that one)
Sooz said,
June 5, 2007 at 10:06 am
You obviously have royal bugs in your garden. Quite a technicolour place, your paddock. Your bugs with the blue blood. You with your green fingers. Almost a rainbow.
And if you have royal bugs, does that mean we have to courtesy to you to show our allegiance?
Jac said,
June 5, 2007 at 10:50 am
AHA!!!!!!
Now I get the math question thing! I so got it wron last time, didn’t understand (blush).
Anyway, left a comment, then realised it was on flickr. I’m getting better at techy stuff – just very slow progress 😉
Blue blood – very strange! Hope thgose don’t find their way onto my plot!
Jac said,
June 5, 2007 at 10:51 am
Please excuse the typos!
Brain Bug McBurro said,
June 5, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Soo: Yes. And you must diff your fetlock, too… or sommat.
Jac: Hell, Jac, you are in the House of Typos here. Kicck bick sand trpe wht uyo wsnt 🙂
Gaz said,
June 5, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Them brown grubs are some form of moth or butterfly, methinks.
Them blue grubs, however ? them’s the work of the devil. Probably.
bug_girl said,
June 6, 2007 at 1:04 am
Clearly it’s a Vulcan! 😀
I do know some vaguely bluish green caterpillars, but nothing true blue like that.
Anything blue around it might have nibbled on?
Still Spooked McBurro said,
June 6, 2007 at 8:04 am
No, nothing. Soil, sand, grasses and weeds, that’s all. All the spent reactor fuel is in the kitchen, under the sink (safety first!). I reckon I’ve either stopped an alien invasion in its tracks, or caused a diplomatic incident by killing an alien ambassador – there is a fine line between the too, I find…
Chris said,
June 6, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Are you sure it’s a bug and not, you know, a trick being played on you by the neighbors? I mean, that’s just not right being all technicolor like that. I think I’d be afraid of what I’d find next.
hedgewizard said,
June 6, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Bugger me. I woke up at 2am and knew what your blue splodge was, but when I woke up this morning I’d forgotten it again! Cheers, brain!
BlooLoo McBurro said,
June 7, 2007 at 7:47 am
I sometime hate this fekking maths checker. Bastard thing. Here we go again…
Hi Chris. Nah, my neighbours are pretty cool. I agree about being afeared of my next find though – I’ve already posted about how my garden is the UK version of Buffy’s Hell Mouth. Just in my case I appear to sat atop the Hell Anus instead. Read more here: http://www.wildburro.co.uk/2007/03/12/the-garden-of-good-evil/
BlooLoo McBurro said,
June 7, 2007 at 8:05 am
Hedgie – thanks anyway 🙂 Maybe it will come back to you – let me know if it does so I’ll can call off the local Father Marin 😉
On a related tangent, I once spent two years writing down my dreams. I’d got to the point where I could easily recall them all afterwards (sometimes I’d wake up and make notes 3 or 4 times a night) and I painstakingly wrote them all down in notes books with indexes of cross-references and inferences. The hope was to analyse my dreams, find themes, unlock messages, maybe even to discover if lucid dreaming was possible. After 2 years and 20 notebooks of this, here is what I found:
1) There were no common threads, causes or reactions.
2) I have 3 recurring dreams – being chased but never caught; having huge spider-bugs on and around me; and going to the toilet in private only to find that the location suddenly becomes very, very public *shudder*.
3) I had two dreams where I realised I was dreaming. These were brief but interesting.
4) Waking up 3 to 4 times at night and spending 1 to 2 hours a day writing up dreams is something you can only do when in a loooooong term relationship ‘dry spell’ 😀
Christ. What will Dr Pumpster make of this, I wonder?
bug_girl said,
June 7, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I was so curious, I took the liberty of posting your photo to a group of entomologists.
Verdict:
Crane fly larva
Blueness could be one of two causes: there is a virus that turns isopods blue like this, that may have also infected the fly larva.
OR (and this is what I think is likely:
The slug pellets caused this reaction, since they are usually blue in the UK.
bug_girl said,
June 7, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Oh! but wait!
Tipula Iridescent Virus!
http://www.jstor.org/view/00218901/di996012/99p0542h/0
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/cranefly/Lit%20Nat.htm
Nifty 🙂
Sometimes I just Have To Know. 😀
WOW! McBurro said,
June 7, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Hey, thanks Bug Girl xx
A leatherjacket, huh? Well now I’m glad I whacked it with the spade because:
1) They are little sods!
2) I had a horrible time with daddylonglegs when I was a nipper (still haunts me, but I’ll bet not as much as the lovely teacher who had to come into the toilet with me to protect me from them as I *ahem* had a poo… I was only 5)
3) Leatherjackets look litle chthonians and that is more than enough to deserve a spading (http://www.wizard-games.com/images/Rackham/Confrontation/Dwarves-mid-nor/NMCR03.jpg)
I’m going for the infection theory as I don’t use slug pellets – I’m a 100% organic burro, you know 🙂
Thanks again – if I find anymore foul bugs, I’ll let you know 🙂
Chris said,
June 8, 2007 at 1:12 am
Aw, man! You crack me up. I needed a good laugh today too. Hellanus. Heeheehee! Extra points for mentioning Cthulhu. Your asparagus looks great (yeah, ok, that’s a different post). I get to harvest mine next year (Gods willing and the creeks don’t rise)but it took forever to come up this year. I thought for certain all that trench digging and soaking (no tea) last year was for naught. We should gather together all the gardeners online and make wagers about who gets asparagus shoots first next spring.
Bookie McBurro said,
June 8, 2007 at 9:48 am
Ohhh, run a book on it? Sounds good!
As for mine, I’m just wondering what I can grow in the bed to use the space up that will be bare for the best part of a year!
Chris said,
June 8, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I grew lettuce and basil. You know. Until the japanese beetles ate most of the basil.
This Means War! McBurro said,
June 8, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Just what have the Japanese got against your garden? I’d contact the UN if I were you! Ohhhh, it’s like me & China all over again!
http://www.wildburro.co.uk/2007/04/02/what-have-i-ever-done-to-china/
Mike said,
June 9, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Woah – great to see the asparagus going in:)
Asparagus! McBurro said,
June 11, 2007 at 8:10 am
Hi Mike – well, it was all down to your advice. After that I plumped for 10 crowns and hang the 2 year wait! 😀
Chris said,
June 12, 2007 at 1:16 am
I don’t think it’s the Japanese that have anything against my garden, just their beetles. Since they ate the basil, maybe they were just in the mood for some good Italian?