It took a hit in 1940 and again in 1944, when a doodlebug killed five ARP wardens. com, as customers send gifts to their better halves. Unconventional pet names such as 'huggle wuggles', 'cuddly beast', and ' doodlebug' are cropping up on lastminute. June 13, 1944: V-1 Rocket Ushers in a New Kind of Warfare 2007 Olimar's Notes: While life-forms that excrete foul musks to warn of danger are not rare, the doodlebug is the only species known to release flatulence when active above ground.īut the rocket, known to the British as the "buzz bomb" or the " doodlebug," was also easily spotted and comparatively slow, making it vulnerable to antiaircraft fire and enemy fighters.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986 Or, you can use a spoon or your fingers to scoop up the sand at the bottom of the pit, and then sift it gently to unearth the hidden doodlebug.In 1958, he and I worked ten days on and five days off for what was called a doodlebug outfit, or seismograph crew, laying out rubber cable and seismic jugs in bays and swamps all along the Louisiana-Texas coastline.ĭave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002 If there's an antlion lying-in-wait, it may just grab hold. If you want to see a doodlebug, you can try luring one out of its trap by lightly disturbing the sand with a pine needle or a piece of grass. Although its head is tiny, the antlion bears disproportionately large, sickle-shaped mandibles, with which it quickly grabs the doomed ant.
When the doodlebug senses the disturbance, it will usually kick sand in the air to further confuse the poor ant and to accelerate its descent into the abyss.
Should an ant or other insect wander up to the pit's edge, the movement will start a cascade of sand sliding into the pit, often causing the ant to fall into the trap. After constructing a new pitfall trap, the doodlebug lies in wait at the bottom of the pit, hidden beneath the sand. Have you ever hiked a sandy path, and noticed clusters of perfectly conical pits about 1-2 inches in width along the ground? Those are antlion pits, built by the chubby doodlebug to trap ants and other prey.
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