Kind heart, gentle heart.

[Knight of Albion]

Kind heart, gentle heart:
Rescue the drowning insect; carry the snail on the pavement to safety; return the helpless worm, writhing on concrete, to the sanctuary of Mother Earth.
Render help and kindness, wherever it is needed, to all life, great or small. Suffering has no boundaries, neither should compassion.

 

[DallasApple]

Thats what I do .

Except I used worms to catch a fish .And I ate the fish.

 

[mimpibird39]

I do this all the time whenever I see a bug in the house. (Unless it is an ant. Screw ants.) Then my family makes fun of me for putting the bugs outside instead of smashing them.

 

[Knight of Albion]

I do this all the time whenever I see a bug in the house. (Unless it is an ant. Screw ants.) Then my family makes fun of me for putting the bugs outside instead of smashing them.

A reflection of your heart and inner light. Good for you.

But about the ants...Ants, along with bees, are the most noble of all insects. They dedicate their lives totally to Service, for the greater good of their fellows. And they are so industrious and purposeful.

I think we humans could learn much from the humble ant!

 

[abbasgirl]

I've only been able to rescue a few bugs in my home to release. However silverfish are always executed. Don't know why, but I can't bear to look at them.

 

[satyaroop]

But about the ants...Ants, along with bees, are the most noble of all insects. They dedicate their lives totally to Service, for the greater good of their fellows. And they are so industrious and purposeful.

I think we humans could learn much from the humble ant!

most beautiful words from you.

and bees, found in bright sunshine amongst blossoming flowers, collecting nectar, truly divine creatures

 

[Enola]

Knight of Albion...soulful man. Wonderfully said. I am the same way. I fish bees from swimming pools, pull butterflies from webs before they get sucked dry from Mr. Spider, move legless lizards (they look like snakes but are really lizards) into pots around my yard where my cat can't get them, step over a trail of ants. Only thing I will kill is maggots, skeeters, fleas, flys.

And I LOVE my bees.

 

[Parsimony]

I do pretty much all of those same things. Unless the insects are causing a problem (such as a roach infestation), I go out of my way to avoid killing them.

 

[Enola]

Oh. I forgot about roaches cuz I haven't seen any in a very very long time. But if I DID see one...sorry. Go see God. Smoosh.

 

[Enola]

This is a legless lizard. They are just gorgeous but only come out at night to hunt. Silvery in color with purple stripes along their side..sometimes purple and dark pink. When I find one the cat is playing with, I always check to make sure it is ok. Sometimes, their tail is shredded from the cat claws but a little neosporin on it, and a rest period in my hand as it explores my fingers...it's good to go in the Lizard Pots I have in the back yard that are full of plants and flowers. And bugs for it to munch.

 

[Caladan]

Knight of Albion...soulful man. Wonderfully said. I am the same way. I fish bees from swimming pools, pull butterflies from webs before they get sucked dry from Mr. Spider, move legless lizards (they look like snakes but are really lizards) into pots around my yard where my cat can't get them, step over a trail of ants.

I think many people avoid stepping on a column of ants, many will take the bother to remove an insect to safer ground, but taking an earned meal from a spider? isn't this like playing god and demonizing one of nature's creatures who like the rest of us deserves a meal in order to carry on living?

Only thing I will kill is maggots, skeeters, fleas, flys.

You are nothing like Knight of Albion

 

[Enola]

Mr. Spider was HUGE and very full. And he/she had lots of already sucked victims. The butterfly I saved was wrapped tight...but still alive. So...I plucked it from the web and used two tweezers and carefully unwrapped it. I thought it would not survive. It did. For 2 weeks it drank sugar water out of a bottle cap..it's long probiscus slithering out and just hanging in the cap. It's wings were thrashed, one leg was missing. But it lived in a jar in my room. It was amazing to nurse that creature. 2 weeks later, it was flutter all lopsided in it's jar. I googled to see what was going on. It had to lay its eggs for the next generation and its time was up. So I took it outside and held it in my palm. Poor thing was totally warped, but it so desperately wanted to fly. So I brought it one last meal of sugar water and held it up again. It flapped everywhere...but finally got it's sugar rush and to my utter amazement....it took off. Didn't make it far....just to the neighbors tree and thankfully landed in it. Pretty sure it died there...but not until it laid it's eggs under a leaf.

 

[Caladan]

Well then, I think this is a poetic description of the kind of wonderful person you are (I still hold a grudge about the spider though):

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Ace Ventura - Hungry fellow? - YouTube

 

[Enola]

Couple of months ago, I accidentally shut the door on a stick bug. It bent in half but didn't cut off the last half of its body. So...I gently squeezed the bent part and figured it would die but just in case..I put it in the same jar I used for the butterfly a year earlier.
I filled it with plants I googled to see which they ate and went to bed. Next morning, it was over in a corner, munching. But I figured it needed water, so I dipped my finger in some and laid the stick bug on my palm and bent my finger towards where its mouth was. The arms wrapped around that finger and I could actually FEEL the mandibles scraping against my finger..and the water droplet soon was sucked up. So I gave it more. Three times. And it drank it all. Ah ha! Water, with the plants in the jar. I did this for 2 days, then I put it outside in the plant that was in a pot. At the base, I kept a lid from a jar full of water for it. It lived in that pot for 3 weeks, then one day..it just disappeared. Either it moved on or a bird got it.

I will never....NEVER forget what it felt like to have a stick bug suck water off my finger. I was awed.

I am in the back yard during the spring and summer...all day, every day. It is my haven. And I enjoy my critters. Except, I avoid the egret statues out there because two black widows live in the inside. They spin their web into the flowers, so I am careful when I weed around those egrets. I told them they could stay...but leave my fingers and hands alone. So far, they have obliged.

 

[Caladan]

Personally I do not intervene in nature's shenanigans, especially since predators have a hard time as it is surviving and wasting all that precious energy on one single meal.
I regularly release snakes, scorpions and other venomous creatures after removing them from my working environment.

 

[Enola]

I just love nature, caladin. So much to learn from critters out there. Amazing and fascinating experiences.

I post at another board but I don't talk about these things there. I would be laughed at. I love this forum. I just don't want to run across pics or stories of animal abuse. I can't read or see such things. It hurts me where I can't sleep.

Sorry about the spider though. He was fine. Trust me. That guy/gal was as big as my thumb, lives in the tree in the back yard with lots of other spiders just like him, hairy and is scarey as hell. It gets bees and probably other butterflies, but not if I get to them first and they are still squirming.

 

[Enola]

Personally I do not intervene in nature's shenanigans, especially since predators have a hard time as it is surviving and wasting all that precious energy on one single meal.
I regularly release snakes, scorpions and other venomous creatures after removing them from my working environment.

I am a hermit. I get involved because it is an experience for me. And it makes me feel good that all that live in my yard are safe. Well...unless I happen across something fluttering while being wrapped in a web. My yard, my rules, lol. They must give up a token to the landlord. A bee. A butterfly. A bumblebee. They can have all the skeeters they want.

 

[Caladan]

I am a hermit. I get involved because it is an experience for me. And it makes me feel good that all that live in my yard are safe. Well...unless I happen across something fluttering while being wrapped in a web. My yard, my rules, lol. They must give up a token to the landlord. A bee. A butterfly. A bumblebee. They can have all the skeeters they want.

Grooming a yard can be wonderful, certainly sounds like you are creating your own Shangri-La.

 

[Enola]

Trying to. It is safer and saner in my back yard that it is out there in the world.

 

[Caladan]

Trying to. It is safer and saner in my back yard that it is out there in the world.

Have you tried the outdoors?