Ladybugs
There is an infestation of ladybugs around Plumas Lake this Spring. If you know Plumas than you know that each year there is a "plague" of a certain insect. This year I believe it is ladybugs. So my children have been obsessed with catching ladybugs. They keep them for awhile and then the lucky few that survive get let go.
No matter how many times I've told my kids that because ladybugs are really pretty we DON'T pinch them between our thumb and forefinger, stomp on them, pull their wings off, or keep them in the dogs water bucket (they don't survive), they can't seem to stop the genocide!
The other day Jason heard the following conversation outside between Bella and Tyson:
Bella: Here Tyson, hold my ladybugs. I'm going to go find some more!
Tyson: Laadddyybug
Bella: (Returns) AWWWWW TYSON! You squished em!
Tyson: Laaadddyybug
Tyson pulled me outside the other day because he was very excited to show me something. He walked over to a black splotch on the patio, stomped next to it and said, "Squish laaadddyybug". *Sigh* Do you think kids that squish ladybugs go to heaven?
posted by Huhtala Family at 9:26 AM
2 Comments:
NO, BUT I'M SURE MOTHERS LIKE YOU DO . . .
That's funny. Your kids are cute.
Ladybugs remind me of our cabin in Fruitland Utah. Most people don't know (I didn't) that cabins are full of bugs because of all the cracks for them to hide in. When there's lots of bug you get lots of spiders to eat the bugs.
We had a lot of spiders.
We found out that if you have ladybugs in your house they eat all the bugs that the spiders would eat. Leaving no food for the spiders. Then the spiders leave.
So we would buy 200 ladybugs every few months and let them go in and around the house. It was really fun to watch them fly all over the house.
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