So, given the work environment and economic conditions, I'm okay about welcoming a few into my office this fall. For the last several weeks my metal mini-blinds have been "tink-tinking" with every lifting and landing of a friendly polka dotted beetle.
This is likely the only insect I can say I welcome. I don't mind if they crawl across my hand, or my keyboard, and no shiver up and down my spine that spiders, ants, bees, and other bugs can induce.
Currently there are about 6 crawling on and around my window. Once in a while, I try to move them onto the friendly green leaves of my plants, but they tend to prefer the window glass, blinds, and papers on my desk.
I would not, however, be so welcoming if the numbers grew to the thousands I read about in Washington and Maryland.
This is likely the only insect I can say I welcome. I don't mind if they crawl across my hand, or my keyboard, and no shiver up and down my spine that spiders, ants, bees, and other bugs can induce.
Currently there are about 6 crawling on and around my window. Once in a while, I try to move them onto the friendly green leaves of my plants, but they tend to prefer the window glass, blinds, and papers on my desk.
I would not, however, be so welcoming if the numbers grew to the thousands I read about in Washington and Maryland.
6 comments:
It's odd, isn't it, how we 'like' certain insects, but loathe others. Aside from ladybugs, I'm partial to bees (honey and bumble), dragonflies, butterflies, and mantises.
Remember your condo each Fall??
I, too heard about all the infestations on our radio and one suggestion was to put mothballs in an old stocking and hang outside your window--now isn`t that a great addition to your decor??
Lucky you to have such fun office mates!
We had a bad case of ladybugs two years ago - I let them multiply until I heard that too many can cause allergy/asthma issues so I brought out the vac and sucked them up. Our houseguests had overstayed their welcome!
I didn't even notice them. The stinkbugs, however...yuck!
I feel the same way about ladybugs. They seem...friendly. Companionable.
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