B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 28, 2021

Uh oh!

Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home, like RIGHT NOW.

Most spiders are not treated so well by humans) …

even though they are often also (just as ?) useful to people.

A spider is more likely to get killed by a person.

Egads. Where’s I puts the newspaper now…

Do you know why the Spider had to cross the road?

It just had to go to a new web-site.

Really? He just left you a meal.

Not just humans, but even cats – just think Garfield!

I have no problem with nature’s creatures … as long as they stay out in nature.

I have my side of the wall and they have theirs and theirs is a lot larger.

Heading into the dark web….((((((( GASP )))))))

“Splat” !

Coming soon to your neighborhood, taking over from local ladybugs, a larger fiercer species of “ladybug” that has spread here from China.

Spiders need a new P.R. agency.

You would never do that to a Ladybug if you were an aphid however……

humans have an unfortunate soft spot for things that are “cute”

How true.

That’s a big freakin’ ladybug

Ladybugs may be adorable but they bite.

I’m confused. Shouldn’t the spider be in agreement? I mean, a human just sent lunch her way…

I have set many a spider free when forced to “take care of it” by family members. Only recently (within the last week) have I helped a ladybug to freedom. It was trying to get outside of a condo building at a fixed (does not and cannot open) door sized window. I collected it and set it free out on the communal deck. As a gardener I do appreciate my beneficial insects!

Too many humans do not understand the good work spiders do!

He cannot tell which sex it is either … estrogen, bleah!

I help spiders out.

Spiders are cool.

I like spiders. They eat flies. I do not like flies. I like spiders because they eat flies.

(Notice I am motivated by self-interest.)

Survivors aren’t always the strongest, sometimes they’re the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest. Better luck next time, if there is a next time.

Where is the home of a ladybug?

PSA: Do not eat ladybugs. If you eat 100 of them it can kill you. Some are ore poisonous than others, but don’t take the chance! Keep mouth closed when biking or motorcycling. Do not hang your head out the window.

used to buy a box of lady bugs and call all the kids over and dump some in each hand ….. then told them to go home and release them …used to buy them from someone advertising in “Southern Living” magazine

I used to keep pet spiders and feed them bugs. She should feel lucky.

They’re cute, but did you know they bite?

Lady bugs are in the layers of predator and prey are predator below and prey above it. They evolved elements toxic to some of their predators.

“All things dull and ugly,

All creatures short and squat,

All things rude and nasty,

The lord god made the lot…"

And so on.

Eric Idle sometime in the 1970s.