The joy of "bugs"

It seems that each year around this time of year we have these bugs that shed their skins. It looks just like the bug and it sticks to the tree in our front year and all around it. The boys think this is the coolest thing and have spent the last week finding and collecting them.

 There are some that are on the ground but once they collected them they started seeing them on the tree "way up high!" Solution: find a big stick and knock 'em down, but you need to be careful that you don't break them.

 Amazingly I was watching this with them swinging the sticks thinking this is NOT going to end well. I was glad to be wrong on that point, and happy to report there was no problems. They were pretty successful with getting the "bugs" down and the ones that were broken were easily taken care of....brought to the sidewalk and stomped on.

 They called this there "bug family", and their home under the blue bucket. As you can see they collect quiet a bit over the past week.

There was a point where they thought lets just stomp on them all so yesterday this was what was left.