Evil Grass!
Feb. 3rd, 2006 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
harvestarAnother late post...
On our backpacking trip to Big Bend National Park, we came across this horrible evil grass. Or rather, I came across it in an ill-fated attempt to get up a boulder pile. It looked like normal grass... until the little seed pods stuck themselves and their awful barbs all over me!
It was then that we noticed the insects impaled upon the grass - very, very creepy. And we only saw this stuff in one wash on our hike. And none of our party had ever encountered it before (and we had an impressive amount of Big Bend covered among those in the group).
Here's the scariest picture - you're walking along a lovely, sunlit wash and you say, "Oh, look, a praying mantis!" Then it hits you, that's a *dead* praying mantis ... with cobwebs.
And here's an impaled butterfly:
And here's what I looked like covered in the evil grass - my shirt will never be the same - and yes, that's both a dead wasp and a dead moth:
So now I have an irrational fear of grass.
Pictures from the whole trip are at:
http://thorn.as.arizona.edu/~kak/Pictures/Hiking/BigBend05/BigBend05.html
On our backpacking trip to Big Bend National Park, we came across this horrible evil grass. Or rather, I came across it in an ill-fated attempt to get up a boulder pile. It looked like normal grass... until the little seed pods stuck themselves and their awful barbs all over me!
It was then that we noticed the insects impaled upon the grass - very, very creepy. And we only saw this stuff in one wash on our hike. And none of our party had ever encountered it before (and we had an impressive amount of Big Bend covered among those in the group).
Here's the scariest picture - you're walking along a lovely, sunlit wash and you say, "Oh, look, a praying mantis!" Then it hits you, that's a *dead* praying mantis ... with cobwebs.
And here's an impaled butterfly:
And here's what I looked like covered in the evil grass - my shirt will never be the same - and yes, that's both a dead wasp and a dead moth:
So now I have an irrational fear of grass.
Pictures from the whole trip are at:
http://thorn.as.arizona.edu/~kak/Pictures/Hiking/BigBend05/BigBend05.html
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Date: 2006-02-04 05:01 pm (UTC)I wonder what the use is though... is this a carnivorous plant in some way? If not, why would it be like that....
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Date: 2006-02-05 11:07 pm (UTC)It may be that it could attach itself to animals passing by and get more of a range of seeds (perhaps like the burrs on other plants)?
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Date: 2006-02-10 09:39 pm (UTC)And adding you back to my flist. Hi! :)