What an excellent thing to be selling at a flower show.
We have a few species here including a real giant about five inches long in a lovely bright new spring green colour. I caught two of them to get a better look putting them in a small aquarium. Five minutes later when I went to have a look I saw the most startling thing.
One of them was standing there grooming itself casually while the other, well it had been neatly arranged on the floor in identical matching pieces, still fully alive.
All the legs had been removed along with the pairs of wings and lay as they fell, either side of the hapless torso and head swivelling from side to side antenna twitching.
As calmly as could be and with surgical precision the other went in and bending its head downwards and sideways as if to kiss the incapacitated victim a last good-bye, it neatly nipped its head off. Which fell right there.
I have to say I did feel a twinge of revulsion at my complicity. Hopefully they at least mated first is what I though as I hurriedly set the butcher free.
