Thanks for the new friends

[SpiraMirabilis]

To the person importing packages labeled "LIVE LADYBUGS" into Del Rio, thanks for all the new friends I've made. There appears to be a family of them, I hesitate to use the term "colony", now permenently living in my airplane. I thought for sure they'd die off after a few days due to the lack of water but they're surprisingly hale and hardy little creatures. I talk to them on the flights -- and they've lost their fear of humans.

 

[ctab5060X]

To the person importing packages labeled "LIVE LADYBUGS" into Del Rio, thanks for all the new friends I've made. There appears to be a family of them, I hesitate to use the term "colony", now permenently living in my airplane. I thought for sure they'd die off after a few days due to the lack of water but they're surprisingly hale and hardy little creatures. I talk to them on the flights -- and they've lost their fear of humans.

At least you didn't get crickets!

 

[SpiraMirabilis]

Well, I'm going to see if I can get a shipment of crickets to eat the ladybugs, then maybe a shipment of frogs to eat the crickets, then perhaps a shipment of wild hyenas to eat the frogs and work from there.

 

[ctab5060X]

Well, I'm going to see if I can get a shipment of crickets to eat the ladybugs, then maybe a shipment of frogs to eat the crickets, then perhaps a shipment of wild hyenas to eat the frogs and work from there.

:laff::laff:

It was weird... for several days after that shipment, I would leave the airplane for the night at the FBO and could hear this "chirp, chirp" as I secured the airplane.

 

[USMCmech]

At least you didn't get crickets!

I don't think it's the crickets that stink so bad, but the fruit that the put in there to feed them.

 

[ctab5060X]

I don't think it's the crickets that stink so bad, but the fruit that the put in there to feed them.

Thankfully, mine were on the inbound leg into the hub... no stink as they were fresh.

But they made an awful racket for days afterwards!

 

[flyguydaniel]

I'm still waiting for the day one of the plastic tubs of lab mice breaks and I find a bunch of little furry friends in the cockpit with me. There's nothing quite like the smell of ripe mice pee and pine shavings.

 

[wjmiller3]

To the person importing packages labeled "LIVE LADYBUGS" into Del Rio, thanks for all the new friends I've made. There appears to be a family of them, I hesitate to use the term "colony", now permenently living in my airplane. I thought for sure they'd die off after a few days due to the lack of water but they're surprisingly hale and hardy little creatures. I talk to them on the flights -- and they've lost their fear of humans.

Del Rio...... All the suddden I am having flashbacks of being stuck in a hotel room for a week there during hurricane Ike. Not a great place for a vacation...

 

[JayAre]

Del Rio...... All the suddden I am having flashbacks of being stuck in a hotel room for a week there during hurricane Ike. Not a great place for a vacation...

Dude Flashbacks! WTF guess who called me less than an hour ago. The Ramada at Del Rio. I was TDY there for AMF over six months ago they thought I was the main contact for payment. Hire better bookeepers and somebody who speaks english.

 

[skatergeek]

To the person importing packages labeled "LIVE LADYBUGS" into Del Rio, thanks for all the new friends I've made. There appears to be a family of them, I hesitate to use the term "colony", now permenently living in my airplane. I thought for sure they'd die off after a few days due to the lack of water but they're surprisingly hale and hardy little creatures. I talk to them on the flights -- and they've lost their fear of humans.

That's awesome, sure beats the bees that I carry about everyday! I hope they don't start a 'colony' haha anic:

 

[gomntwins]

I had a box of queen bees break open awhile back. Apparantly they don't sting... but I had no faith the same guy that couldn't successfully package them to know the difference between queen and regular bees. I killed a lot of them. A lot. Apparantly they're worth a lot of money, but I really didn't care. I've hauled a lot of live animals, reptiles, and bugs. I would prefer to haul corpses anyday (done that a number of times too).

 

[FriendlySkies]

before the cold hit I used to carry birds. Always put them in the doorway, but I dreamed of the cardboard boxes openning up and baby birds scattering. Then one would land on my shoulder, fullfilling my life-long wish becoming an Air-Pirate!

Yaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr

 

[Max1594]

before the cold hit I used to carry birds. Always put them in the doorway, but I dreamed of the cardboard boxes openning up and baby birds scattering. Then one would land on my shoulder, fullfilling my life-long wish becoming an Air-Pirate!

Yaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr

:rotfl:

 

[cmill]

I cant decide if the dead fish or the live queen bees was the worst package I ever got. The bees def. scared the hell out of me. The fish just made me want to suffocate myself.