Docking on Black. Coreus marginatus, True or Dock Bug, on Blackberry, Rubus fruticosus, Gaasperplas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Insects have lots going for them and one of the pleasantries of True Bugs is that their pubescent stadia are called nymphs both for females and males.
I was going to tell you how I dived up out of the hospitable waters of the Gaasperplas like a nymph into the shade of of succulent Blackberry shrubbery. But I had to restrain myself both as Rana and as Homo sapiens because in our worlds nymphs are usually pretty - though often dangerous, too - females.
Anyway, I did scramble out of the water and was enjoying those Blackberries. One I started to pop into my mouth and then noticed this nymph of a True Bug. I carefully put it on an unripe berry, and then ate True Black. Come to think of it, when I was a lad and complained that there was a worm in my apple, my mother laughed and said: well, it's spent its entire life there and is as much apple as apple... so bite up!
Docking on Black. Coreus marginatus, True or Dock Bug, on Blackberry, Rubus fruticosus, Gaasperplas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Insects have lots going for them and one of the pleasantries of True Bugs is that their pubescent stadia are called nymphs both for females and males.
I was going to tell you how I dived up out of the hospitable waters of the Gaasperplas like a nymph into the shade of of succulent Blackberry shrubbery. But I had to restrain myself both as Rana and as Homo sapiens because in our worlds nymphs are usually pretty - though often dangerous, too - females.
Anyway, I did scramble out of the water and was enjoying those Blackberries. One I started to pop into my mouth and then noticed this nymph of a True Bug. I carefully put it on an unripe berry, and then ate True Black. Come to think of it, when I was a lad and complained that there was a worm in my apple, my mother laughed and said: well, it's spent its entire life there and is as much apple as apple... so bite up!