So many weird things happen to me in each day's time that I could never quite keep up with them all here. But, I certainly will try!
After a crazy day of cleaning up after an elusive office mouse and actually working, I took a late lunch. As I sat down in the darkened conference room, I gazed outside thru the sole window in the room. As I became mesmerized by the waving pond grasses and fields of soybeans, I noticed a strange bug hanging onto the window screen. As I looked closer, I noticed it was not one, but two 'skeeter-eaters' matin'! I sat there pondering the fortitude it must have taken them to hang on from one end to the other end just during copulation, much less a windy day. And then I noticed an interloper, a voyeur of sorts. I just couldn't determine if it was a progeny, a potential mate or just an adolescent male taking notes.
"Skeeter-eaters" or Crane Flies, go by many crazy names like mosquito hawk, mosquito eater (or skeeter eater), gallinipper, and gollywhopper, depending on where you live.
After getting a closer look on my side of the window and joining the "show", I realized the magnitude of their act, holding tight in linear formation, each shuddering in sync with the other as the wind lifted their wings as they silently procreated. Ok, it was silent to me. I'm sure they were huffin' and puffin' and whispering sweet nothin's into each other's antenae. Then it finally dawned on me who that voyeur (besides myself) was, waiting for HER turn....his other mate! I hoped for his sake he had enough stamina left for her!
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