[Sca-cooks] Butter bugs

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>>Though I would probably be glad to
>>see a butter bug or two.)
>>
>>Cynara
>>
>Butter bug??  I give up.  What is it?
>
>Olwen

This is a reference to Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign, a SF 
book with comic relief in a genetic scientist who invents "butter 
bugs" that regurgitate a protein substance in much the way that 
honeybees gather honey. (OFC)

http://www.softwear-tnt.com/bugpuppet.html (this a puppet and not actual size)

Ranvaig