Outside my cellar window the Doodlebugs dwell, rounding out their pits, traps for the unwitting ant scurrying by... Yes, there actually are Doodlebugs, a.k.a. Ant Lions, and I've enjoyed watching their antics as they burrow and fling sand out of their carefully configured snares. Someday those ungainly creatures will sprout wings and fly away.
Today ladybugs swarmed through the warm sunny air and infiltrated the house. Their flight is so different from that of a bee, wasp or fly. It's kind of a loose weaving or wandering pattern. I didn't realize how many had made their way past door and window until I turned on a lamp against the encroaching darkness, only to find about twenty of them on the ceiling. "Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home..."
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