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Doodle Bugs

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Many, many years ago, we were housing tobacco on a place where it was not not feasible to go home for lunch, so we packed our food. It was close to 50 years ago, so I don't even pretend top recall the entire menu. Probably some kind of lunch meat (more than likely bologna) with bread and fresh lettuce and tomatoes from the environs. But one day it started to rain and we had to eat inside the barn.

Grandpa showed me how to draw up Doodle Bugs from the dirt. Neat!

I hope to show my daughter (18 years old) some of this stuff on a field trip this summer! She is looking forward to it. Plus shooting a 30.06, 20 gauge shotgun and whatever other firearms we can find among relatives!

Mike
 
Ahhh! The smell of gunpowder in the morning.... :flamethrower:
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I'm gonna have to see if we have any of those Doodle Bugs around here.
 
Yeah, doodle bugs were (are) awesome! We didn't just swirl them up though. We use to herd ants over to them, watch them fall in and then the doodle bug did his thing. (sick little shits, weren't we :cool: ). It wasn't until years later I found out why doodle bugs (aka antlions) liked ants so much. :lol:

30.06 is much more fun now. :)

Hope you have a great time with your daughter.
 
I don't know how you guys caught the doodle bugs, but all you have to do is stick a piece of pine straw down the hole they make and they latch on to the end of the straw...I had hours of fun playing with them back in the 50s...

I had no store bought toys on the farm when I was growing up...used match boxed for cars...the axles were match sticks and the wheels were round pieces of card board...that was the simple life folks...

We were very poor back then but didn't know it....
 
I have no idea what they are Im going to to look them up ** goooooogle** interesting -- Its like when we first found a Hellgrammite down by the river unholy cow :eek:
 
I loved doodlebugs! I think that I probably had tons of toys in the 60's- we lived near some kind of a toy outlet and my dad went a little nuts at christmas- because he never had toys. But my earliest "playmates" were insects, (thanks to my dad, also) and my fondest memories are all of outdoors and the wonders I found in the garden and the woods, following my dad around. Plastic cant compete with nature for learning opportunities or entertainment, in my book. The wonder I had when I first looked into the face of a toad who willingly stayed in my cupped hands has never been forgotten. He was beautiful in my eyes, and will always be. Doodlebugs were my favorite "monsters" :)
 
AlabamaJack said:
I don't know how you guys caught the doodle bugs, but all you have to do is stick a piece of pine straw down the hole they make and they latch on to the end of the straw...I had hours of fun playing with them back in the 50s...

I had no store bought toys on the farm when I was growing up...used match boxed for cars...the axles were match sticks and the wheels were round pieces of card board...that was the simple life folks...

We were very poor back then but didn't know it....
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I feel ya on the cheap toys thing. I bet i've hit a million rocks with a tobacco stick out by the barn!
 
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