The end of the roll

I found this on Facebook. It is so good that I decided I should post it here...with a translation for the definitions which do not really require French for understanding.

To be at the end of the roll: A very uncomfortable situation, especially when one is in the toilet.

Facebook: The only place where you talk to a wall without being ridiculous.

GPS: The only woman men listen to to find their way on the road.

Bus: A vehicle that moves twice as fast when you are chasing it than when you are sitting inside.

Key-chain: A very practical invention that allows you to lose all your keys at once instead of one by one.

State: The best mafia system ever organised.

Tie: An accessory used to indicate where a man's brain is.

Carla Bruni: Modern Snow White who prefers one of the seven dwarfs: Grumpy.

White House: At the moment, black barrack.

Car: An ingenious invention, making it possible to have 110 horses in the motor and a donkey at the wheel.

Parents: Two people who teach you to walk and talk to later tell you to sit down and shut your mouth.

Toe: An appendix used to detect door corners.

Equality of the sexes: A new concept created by men to no longer pay in a restaurant.

Any favourites? I especially like the ones about the toilet, the keys and the toes. :P

My (temporary) pet

I know, I know, I've been lazy. So let's talk about my pet.

Remember this post I wrote at the beginning of the year? (oh wow, seems that this is a year-long project) It seems that I have lots of case-making clothes moths in my apartment. But I had never seen the actual moth before...only the larvae and the cocoons. (or maybe I had seen them...and did not recognise them)

So I decided that I would "raise" one of those babies in captivity...and see the moth it would grow into.

I caught one at the end of May or beginning of June. I saw it moving around on the floor...and scooped it into a plastic container. I happened to have one that had a broken cover, so it suited me just fine...air could go through and yet the crack was too small for the insect to get out.

1st June - It's already hanging from the top of the container.

I fed it with hair...I picked up stray hair from the floor and put it into the container. (and yes, the hair disappears after a while)

5th June - It had moved in the container.

6th June - It was moving around rather actively.

Sometimes it would move around so much, I would wonder whether it was already a moth and was trying to get out. (though, in the end. I didn't see the "getting-out" process)

8th June - On the "wall". We can see its legs! (okay, it's not such a big deal :P )

9th June - Feeding time! (It doesn't mean that I gave it food and it came to eat it, just that I happened to see it eating.) And I think you can see its "waste" lying around its home.

Then for some time I couldn't see any progress...sometimes I wouldn't see it come out of its cocoon for so many days that I would wonder whether it wasn't dead (whether I didn't feed it enough). But it still came out once in a while. The last time I saw its head outside its cocoon was on the 15th of June. It looked pretty much the same as it did previously.

1st July - Transformation! It's finally a moth! See the bottom end of the cocoon from which it came out?

3rd July - And there you can see it properly.

In the end, I still don't think I've ever seen this moth around. But at least I know what it looks like now.

And that's it for your latest nature lesson. :P