Post #83704 by 8FT Tiki on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 7:57 PM

Alright, here's what just happened:
My daughter was given some of those "Mexican jumping beans" sometime last year. I thought they just died because they stopped moving a long time ago. In fact I forgot about them and I really figured her mom threw them out anyway. Well I just found out that she actually gave the girl a ziploc bag to keep them in and (here's the freaky part) my daughter just came running through the room shouting that they hatched! I was so absorbed getting a TC fix that I didn't comprehend what was happening. It was then that I heard the sliding glass door open and a muffled yell-something to the effect of "fly away, be free" !! I guess the two of them decided to free the little moth in the ziploc and before I could stop them the deed had been done. Now tell me, am I just paranoid because I have visions of this single moth turning into a plague which at this very moment is laying eggs in and feasting upon my newly aquired carving logs out back and then moving on to devour every tree on the North American continent? If you see your tiki carvings hopping away, remember I DIDN"T DO IT! Maybe the 28 degree temps tonight will freeze it to death.
If you know anything about this potential pestilence, and it is bad news, please don't tell the authorities. I'm still in hiding because of that "accidental" sea monkey release that happened at the city lake last summer!