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Emilie has been collecting Eastern Tent caterpillars and Forest Tent caterpillars the last couple of weeks. We make multiple trips each day out along the trees to see just how many more we can find. She has them all crammed into a small bug container mixed with leaves and sticks and stuff. Looks more like the making of a shepherds pie than anything else.

She loves to take one or two out and name then and hold them and talk to them and play with them. The other day as we were sitting in the driveway watching her with these caterpillars I had an idea that just came to me, you see "I'm an idea man, I get ideas, sometimes I get so many ideas that I can't even fight them off!" (Bill (Michael Keaton) from the 1982 movie Night Shift), anyway the idea is races; caterpillar racing!

We wasted no time in testing this idea and quickly created a chalk race track, see picture. Our prototype only had two lanes, but once this catches on we'll have six or eight or even ten lanes with patent pending. We just need to figure out how to attach numbers to these fury, defoliating, leaf eating pests.

Another idea - "What if you mix the mayonnaise in the can, WITH the tuna fish? Or... hold it! I got it! Take LIVE tuna fish, and FEED 'em mayonnaise! Oh this is great." (another Bill quote from Night Shift).