K30a wrote:

How about small slugs on warm ground, then
they'll move.

Another trick is to get a small clay flower pot water saucer (can't
remember the names of the darned things you put under the pot to catch
the water) and use it as a food dish. I got one for the rescued turtle
who we have at home and he's eating like a champ from it. *smile* It
cost me around fifty cents at the local Lowes.

I know what you mean about letting nature take its course - my mother can tell
you about a nest of baby mice I tried to raise, birds I insisted we take to the
vet, a pocket full of mussels from the beach in my robe, a fish I took to bed
with me and the eggs I tried to hatch under my pillow.

Can't do it either. I suspect this has something to do with why we all
love ponds. I sitll remember the baby chipmunks we raised by hand an
dmy grandmother falling on her butt as the escaped baby chipmunk ran
right between her legs when she was trying ot cath it, the monarch
butterfly chrysalis that hung from the curtain rod in the living room so
we couldn't close the drapes until it emerged, my one eyed garter
snake who took up residence under the refrigerator, etc. *laugh* Just
can't turn my back on injured or orphaned animals of any kind. (Animals
do not include arachnids, BTW.)

It is no wonder I have a jar full of tadpoles in the kitchen window and another
jar full of damselfly nymphs on the kitchen table.

Tadpoles are in the pond along with the rescued crayfish.

Susan
shsimko at duke dot edu