Another successful leopard slug catch and release program. (Caught on the tile of the guest bathroom, released on the porch, under the careful middle management of Sisto. )
Fireflies are out in force tonight, as are neighbors blowing off all manner of loud fireworks.
This illustration was published concurrently with Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. From The American Boys’ Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles by Daniel Carter Beard, 1915.
This is also a precursor to a Katakana emoticon – ‘\_(😁)_/’