Firefly admires Hummingbirds and Ladybugs

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A friend in Idaho has a precocious daughter who runs like the wind through tall grass and enjoys climbing trees. We’ve aptly nicknamed her Firefly. Firefly has a fascination for ladybugs and likes to inspect them with her magnifying glass as they crawl and then buzz off with hypersonically. Once, she spied a pink ladybug outside a coffee shop where dozens of tall passersby missed a rare chance.

Firefly and I are holding a contest between us to see which State has the most ladybugs; Pennsylvania or Idaho?  So far the Gem State is in the lead, but if I get more outdoorsy I feel the Keystone State might pull ahead; although I reckon it would be fair to count her pink ladybug as ten points.

Besides lovely ladybugs, Firefly and I share tales about butterflies and hummingbirds. I told Firefly about the splendorous white monarchs fluttering about Spring Mills and she laughed brightly when I jested that butterflies delight in blatantly ignoring voter district boundaries. Now I want to send her some hovering hummingbird photos. An unexpected thing about the hummingbird photos I caught was the stern look on their faces. I suppose I’d be serious too, if as an elite flying athlete I wasn’t sure where my next meal was coming from because someone neglected to fill their bird vitamin feeder. 

I sent an article out last season about how important this is, to keep your hummingbird feeders maintained. On top of that it’s at least as important to rinse the bacteria from feeders in between fill-ups to prevent hummers from becoming ill. This could further explain the stern look on their faces we’ve see before they ‘tank up’ for a night in the trees.

Following our most recent ladybug tally-up, young Firefly asked if I had any more interesting insect insights. I gave her a riddle: “What did the guy firefly say to his girlfriend when twilight loomed?” Firefly lit up tickled pink and said, “You glow Girl!”