A few notes from the garden…

[ursulav]

WARNING: Biological Icky Bits Ahead!

Guess what I found!?

Comments

[aurora77]

Hm, maybe the predator felt threatened and had to drag off their kill in a hurry and that's what fell out. I've seen cats run off with their kills several times. Mine just never left much behind.

[fenris_lorsrai]

I actually got to see an adult burying beetle drag a vole around the steps. The cat had obviously left us small dead rodents on the doorstep. The beetle did eventually manage to drag it to the dirt and bury it. Yeah, go bury beetle, go!

[ursulav]

That's amazing! What a trooper that bug is!

[neowolf2]

Someone needs to write a new verse to "High Hopes".

[c_maxx]

It looks like a trilobite!

I guess they are not very closely related, other than being, what is it?, arthropods, or some such.

Convergent evolution?

Oh Lord, even Lj has spellcheck these days...

[sofish_sasha]

I had a bug that looked quite similar to that larva show up in my room the other day. I've no idea what it actually was, and I've never seen anything like it before (here in Sweden). It was very fast, creepy as hell, and right next to my bed, so it had to go.

[randombler]

Tidy piles of viscera round our house, discovered by the trusty bare foot method, were definitely cat leavings. Different cats have had different habits with the shrews which were their commonest prey. One would just eat the head, another all but the head - or at least separate body and head far enough not to be discovered on the same day, but one definitely used to leave little piles of guts in random places through those parts of the house she was allowed in throughout the summer. (Well fed cats do not bother with the hard work of hunting in winter, but in summer that is a girl to do with so much scurrying tastily in the field next door?)

[carmy_w]

That was my first thought-bird innards. Although if it had been raining enough to force the worms up to the surface, it might have been a frog....