yarn = worms?

That's probably just what was in his mind. OOH BIG PILE OF WORMS! Poor guy =)

Especially since we swore off superworms last summer, and he hasn't had any good worms since then.
I should probably do some checking around and see if I can find him some nice silk worms or phoenix worms or something like that. He does go pretty nuts for worms, but our choices are somewhat limited around here. :roll:

We are having a similar situation. Liz thinks my newly painted blue nails are bugs.

Round 2 -- here we go again...

So I'm watching the evening news the other day, and working on another one of my knitting projects, this one involving yarn that's several different shades of light and dark brown, just about the same colors as a not-recently-molted superworm, and his nibs goes nuts again...

This time I took him out of the terrarium and let him get a real good look at the yarn, under close supervision, of course, so I could stop him if he tried to eat any of it. He looked at it quizzically for a few moments and then again appeared to conclude that it probably wasn't what he thought it was because it wasn't moving anymore -- I can't knit when I have both my hands on the beardie, so the yard just lays there.

So he snuggled on my shoulder for a little while and watched the news with me, but he was apparently not impressed with all the stupid stuff that goes on in the human world (warfare, terrorism, politics, etc.) -- back on the basking platform to get on with the lightbulb worshiping. :roll:

BTW, Liz is not the only bearded dragon who mistakes painted human nails for something edible. Several other people around here have mentioned similar reactions by their beardies, especially to those fancy iridescent nail polishes that are the same color as some types of insects. They've also been know to mistake your nails for raspberries or some other such tasty treat if you paint them bright red, too.