@Crazybeelady I’d like to say I’ve trained them to be domesticated over many years, but in reality they are basically asleep when you open a mothtrap so are very docile and because it’s daylight just want to roost. They just walk onto your finger if you put it in front of them. The important thing is to release them into good cover, or the next evening so they’re not tasty snacks for birds.
Ah sorry @Crazybeelady I thought you meant the moths I’d posted on another thread. The beefly was just a bit groggy as presumably hadn’t really warmed up for the day. Early morning most flying insects are a bit docille.
Here are a few more insects on fingers and some from the moth trap.. if you want dragonflies to land on you, just stay still and point your finger out and up ahead of you when you see one and they will often use you a hunting perch i
@Fire thanks, to be honest the pond and moth trap are just the biggest hits with the kids. They are both absolutely nature mad now. Much like your community gardening, if you get them enthused in it early with something like that I have no doubt it will stay with them a lifetime
So true @Fire. I wish more schools would do stuff like that, our village school got them all to plant seeds in the ‘school garden’ before an ofsted visit, then they were all left to die once the box was ticked. Such a wasted opportunity and poor lesson to teach them
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They just walk onto your finger if you put it in front of them. The important thing is to release them into good cover, or the next evening so they’re not tasty snacks for birds.