I saw this ant crawling around in the window box near Mr. Yogato. I had put some dirt over the spearmint to try to encourage it to root from the stem, but that apparently made the ant lose its trail--it dropped the leaf and puttered around a bit, waving its little antennae around to see where it left its path.
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My bet would be part of a butterfly or moth wing, though it's hard to tell from the picture. I know I've seen ants disassembling butterflies before, at least.
ReplyDeleteHm, a moth wing makes a lot more sense than having leaf cutter ants this far north. I mean, I know DC is tropical during the summer... But it's often bitter and Canada-like in the winter. I don't think that's a good environment for leaf cutters!
ReplyDeleteEven close up, the white thing just looked like a crinkled white piece of thin paper--so, maybe part of a moth wing. Or wax from someone using a candle in a pencil sharpener. People have stopped stepping in/dropping shit in the planters as the plants have become larger, but I still find pretty interesting stuff in there every now and then.
The plot thickens :-)
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is a snippet of Mr.Yogato's menu cards?
Just wait a bit and there will me more. Ants, that is. (big smile).
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