Attack of the moth!
Jun. 25th, 2010 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blueI opened my front door late last night to try to get Bel in. She came...and squawked at me while making no attempt to actually come inside. So I stood by the front door, trying to persuade her to come inside while not letting her know that she's a pain in the ass, then this huuuge moth came flying in - its body was the size of the top half of my thumb. Bel tried to grab it as it shot past her, but it zoomed inside and started loudly beating up the lightshade on my hall light.
Bel, meanwhile, stood on the doorstep, and gawked at it with undisguised glee. You could tell by the look on her face that this was the best thing ever!
In the meantime, I stood there, looking from a delighted Bel to a frenzied moth, which seemed to be trying to teach that lightshade a lesson.
Finally, I got my wits together, and turned off the hall light. I hoped the moth would abandon my hall for the porch light, and really really hoped it wouldn't decide to go attack my sitting room light. After a few minutes of indecision, it finally flew outside, and starting throwing itself at the porch light. Bel stayed on the doorstep (just out of reach, the little sod) and gawked some more at the free entertainment.
I shut the door and left them to it, turning off the porch light as I left. Fortunately for me, my sanity and the hall lightshade, the thing had gone by the time I went back. Bel seemed a bit disappointed at having lost a friend, but agreed to come inside and go to bed.
I have to say that moths don't bother me, but there was no way I was having that huge thing flapping around the place. Apart from anything else, the cats would have gone bonkers trying to catch it.
Bel, meanwhile, stood on the doorstep, and gawked at it with undisguised glee. You could tell by the look on her face that this was the best thing ever!
In the meantime, I stood there, looking from a delighted Bel to a frenzied moth, which seemed to be trying to teach that lightshade a lesson.
Finally, I got my wits together, and turned off the hall light. I hoped the moth would abandon my hall for the porch light, and really really hoped it wouldn't decide to go attack my sitting room light. After a few minutes of indecision, it finally flew outside, and starting throwing itself at the porch light. Bel stayed on the doorstep (just out of reach, the little sod) and gawked some more at the free entertainment.
I shut the door and left them to it, turning off the porch light as I left. Fortunately for me, my sanity and the hall lightshade, the thing had gone by the time I went back. Bel seemed a bit disappointed at having lost a friend, but agreed to come inside and go to bed.
I have to say that moths don't bother me, but there was no way I was having that huge thing flapping around the place. Apart from anything else, the cats would have gone bonkers trying to catch it.