Although it probably gets a little boring for you, the frogs are fascinating company for me.
M Secundus gets a hand
They are an incredible resource for high drama in a small hotel. All that is needed is some small catalyst to set the circus in motion and that's not so difficult to do. Drop in a grasshopper or a jar of luridly copulating red bugs and you have potential for action scenes that outdo the old series of the Dukes of Hazzard. Anything can happen and usually does on a very low level of life, but without writing a diary from the viewpoint of a frog, it's difficult to communicate the social interactions of their world or the hilarity of watching a frog miss his jump or getting knocked off his perch by a falling ladybug.
Mirucek Senex on his apple twig
The disputes between grasshoppers and flies are comical as well as watching copulating redbugs crawl over an unwary frog's head who is preoccupied with visions of eating something on the opposite of the hotel and despite the catapulting frog who is shaken out of his socks by the creepy-crawly sensation of little sticky toes tickling his cranium, the copulating redbugs are definitely the losers in the end because the frog gets a two-for-one instant snack on the rebound.
the appetite for sex is not diminished by the females lust for food
And although flies seem to have eyes on the backs of their head, they can't see the frog in front of them and are stupid enough to march straight into a waiting mouth which rather takes any effort out of a jump. Why bother to leap after a fly when it will quite happily come crawling straight into a dark cave? So both frogs are very nonchalant regarding angry flies tht get dumped in and allow them to exhaust themselves with the calm assurance of who will have the protein at the end of the day.
And dragonflies, although they may be members in the community are rarely if ever distrubed by the frogs, but hang about until a fly or grasshopper bump into them and disturb their dreams. usually, though the dragonflies make a happy exit when the the landscape gets watered or during photo sessions as they have wings to get away.
residential dragon
And although ladybugs at first seemed appealing, it seemed that althugh Mircek Senex took a bite, he quickly spat it out again and the little ladies in scarlet are still happily going about in circles even a week later and are telltale markers for where the aphids and thistles are laid with the microscopic bugs.
Their world is balanced and sane with ongoing comedy and action that could never be replicated in a Hollywood production.
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Comments: 15
Your article was absolutely fascinating. I learnt so much and i love your whimsical style.
Silly question : did you ever kiss a frog ..and what happened?
I don't think they will get much bigger. Mirucek Senex is just over the size of my thumbnail but he was about Secundus' size when he became a frog and they both eat very healthy diets. I saw Mirucek down a fly his own size once which was hysterical.
I don't even think he could walk afterwards. He's doesn't hop very much and does a great deal of walking and stalking. He slinks about like a cat-- which is very unusual ability for a frog. Nearly all frogs have fused tailbones so walking and stalking is impossible.
Frogs can be quite microscopic... and it's really hilarious when a grasshopper catapults into either of them. Mirucek is pretty unruffled, but Secundus usually gets his so hard that he flies off at some angle like a rubberband. and he's very quick on the rebound. Flies are so blind that they will walk up to a frog and then commence to walk over their faces as if they are rocks. It rather gives them an open option for short life.
Tertius just lost his tail, so will have to do a family album in his honor. He still has a stubby bit left, but is mostly gone, and he's not so pretty. Different kind of frog--