For her third grade science project, The Nine-Year-Old has been keeping a series of crickets at home. I say series, because all the male crickets keep dying off. We can’t figure out why the one female cricket would be fine, while all the males are dying. Our working theory is that upon exposure to the Cricket Hellscape that is the 9YO’s room, the males are dying of fright. But can crickets die of fright?
If you look really closely, you’ll see this rabbit has three ears. The black ear on his left (our right) is cradling an inner white ear. It’s…
This morning, it is with differentially heavy hearts that we at Caterpickles must report the death of another male cricket. As reported last Friday, The Nine-Year-Old’s first…
This week, The Nine-Year-Old’s plans to raise an orchestra of crickets hit a snag when she discovers that crickets and cats do not make good housemates. For the last…
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