It’s cold now, the insects are gone. I can only anticipate more hunts next year and recall this setting of past strivings; the epic struggles between a determined human hunter and a host of highly-evolved flying insects.
Man Eating Bugs, the impressive ‘picture-book’ by Menzel and D’Alusio that illustrates worldwide entomophagy, includes dragonfly hunting on the [...]
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Summer’s Hunt
December 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · dragonfly, gathering methods
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A Colony Attacked
July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · ants, dragonfly, gathering methods
This might not seem a dramatic image. It was the site of a great catastrophe, at least from the perspective of the carpenter ant colony that lived there. I am what befell that colony.
I’d first turned over the log on impulse, and replaced it carefully when I found a seething mass of large, winged black [...]
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