Excerpted from recent email correspondence:
—Dead of course. Can I get these from you?
—yes, but alive. I have them in small, flat boxes that are taped and in plastic ziploc bag. paper is grid of 1/4″ squares.
—I’ll bring three ziplocs in case we decide the ziplocs are better than the box.
—box is taped and in ziploc
Family night at the museum. Lou is on his way downstairs to set up but finds time for a visitor.
—I have this sealed all around with tape.
—Yeah…
—(pointing to the edge of closed plastic box inside ziploc) Otherwise first instars can escape from here.
—They can?

On the subway and crossing the street, all I could think of was, if I get run over by a bus…

He gave me a magnifying glass too.
Good bless him.
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Lady #1: I don’t understand why they don’t suffocate. Why don’t they suffocate?
Lady #2: I can’t see the eggs!
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