I found myself outside many nights to listen to the locust, owls, and many crickets.  I never expected to find this. forest_beast_3   No matter what I was not going to disturb the mating rituals of some exotic critter. Beauty as the beast 2   SO the more I looked at them the more I knew that I would not disturb them or the beauty would come after me.  Protecting its mate or something Beauty as the beast 1.  The next day I thought, maybe it was not as I figured.  no_leftovers   How gruesome eh?  Life!  Hope I did not make anyone go nuts.  Creepy to me too.  Sorry it is a little fuzzy, stil trying to know how far away, or how to increase my details in the shot.  Still have the kodak digital.