Ladybug
When Jeremiah’s wife Maria cried out, “We have an infestation of ladybugs!” he jumped up and ran the other way. She started to laugh at him, and then he returned carrying the camera.
As it turns out, “infestation” meant “two”, which is perhaps the smallest possible number for an infestation. I suppose solitary infestations are possible, such as when a june bug lands in your hair¹ or a cockroach falls off the ceiling over your bed and lands on your face². But even then, I have to admit that “an infestation of ladybug” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Jeremiah got several great pictures, but I like the detail of this one the best. The shine on the carapace and the mottled texture of the pronotum and eyes is awesome.
Thanks, Jeremiah!
¹ This happened to me as a child once. It was terrifying.
² This happened to me in Puerto Rico³ as an adult. It was terrifying.
³ So we’re talking about one of those 3″-long carribbean mutant cockroaches. I had been asleep, and I dreamed that someone had slapped their hand across my forehead. And then their hand skittered down my face and onto my neck and tried to crawl under the neck of my pajamas and I really don’t want to talk about this anymore.
Spent the evening hunting bugs with Steve Jackson in Austin, TX. We had a rockin good time, and got about a dozen postable pix between us.
tceisele said,
February 19, 2008 @ 7:53 am
Given the memories they’d stir up for you, I’m assuming that you don’t want some of these then.
I was actually just playing with some of these last night: our public library had a sort of “insect fest” event that we took our daughter to, and she couldn’t tear herself away from the hissing cockroach area (they were being harnessed up to little paper sleds to see how many pennies they could tow. They could manage about 10 times their own weight, as it turns out). We might have to get her some of her own at some point.
JFargo said,
February 19, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Whoo! I’m famous now!!
No? Not yet? Okay, I’ll just keep working on it then.
Anyways, glad you liked it. This site has inspired me to carry a camera with me everywhere I go so I can snap cool photos! Sure, over half of them don’t come out well, but those couple neat pictures I get are very satisfying.
And tceisele? I’ve never had a cockroach fall on me at all, and I don’t want any of those! Those things are crazy!
Scott said,
February 19, 2008 @ 11:19 am
My daughter had to make a diorama for school and her “animal” (everyone got assigned an African animal) was a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. She made them out of clay, life size, and put smiley faces on them. Hilarious.
Scott said,
February 19, 2008 @ 11:24 am
Also, did you get the pictures I sent of the dragonfly at the beach and the grasshopper in the pine tree? I’m keeping my eyes peeled for more bugs to send your way.
b13 said,
February 19, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
You just gave me the heebies with subtext 3… *shivers
JFargo said,
February 19, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
My wife would like me to point out that she is NOT a wuss, and that her use of the word “infestation” was meant as a joke.
I thought it was obvious, but when my wife asks me to point out such things, I do so, because I don’t want her to be upset with me. She sics the dogs on me when she’s upset with me!
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Dov Akiva said,
February 20, 2008 @ 2:25 am
I love ladybugs and I think that this site is great. Here are some interesting ladybug names:
French: la vache de la Vierge, “the cow of the Virgin”
Russian: bozha kapovka, “God’s little cow”
Danish: Mariehone, “Mary’s hen”
Spanish: mariquita. “little Mary”
Turkish: Ugurbocegi, “good luck beetle”
German: Sonnenkindchen, “the sun’s little child”
Hebrew: parat Moshe rabbenu, ‘Moses’ cow.’
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July 3, 2008 @ 7:01 am
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