So I'm in the garden at the shop today and am happily watering everything and I see some bugs - butt ugly ones - crawling around on my Acer. At a closer look I see ALOT of these butt-ugly bugs crawling around almost everything!!!!! Now, I am a huge bug-hater. I usually don't want to hear about how they are God's creatures and they are here for a reason because I have rarely made friends with cute little ants that look like those pictured in those Pixar films!! I'm the type of person who ALWAYS gets bitten by those nasty big grey flying flesh-eaters (horse flies I think?)that take a chunck out of your leg and I end up in the hospital being treated for some sort of allergy and panick attacks!!
Anyway, I'm eyeing these butt-ugly black-with-an-orange-stripe, hairy looking bugs that are infesting my plants and am thinking "must ask my gardener tomorrow what poison I need to get rid of these nasties!! THEN I see that alot of my plants have Aphids (plant lice!!!!) and these nasty black buggers are eating them!!! So I think YAY! A bug that is doing good! Even though they are as ugly as the devil they are eating the Aphids who can do alot of damage to the preeeeety little plants I want to sell!!!! So I just sit there for a moment and watch my little black devils munching the bad little green lice(I know, sad huh?!) and lo and behold my gardener (he's not really 'my' gardener, he's 'a' gardener where I buy alot of plants off!) comes strolling in to my lice paradise and gets all excited and exclaims that my black-devils are immature Ladybugs!!!! And as we all know...Ladybugs EAT ALOT OF APHIDS! I have literally HUNDREDS if not thousands of baby Ladybugs!! And he goes on to tell me that this year we have a huge lice population(because of the mild winter we've had) and therefore the ladybug population will also increase and THEREFORE we will be needing to use alot less poison to kill the Aphids, and by the looks of it, my garden is a Ladybug heaven as far as food for them goes!!!
Moral of the story...not everything that is black, hairy and butt-ugly deserves to die!!!!
Oh, by the way, I still HATE bugs, creepy crawlies and anything that is THAT small and can crawl into my ear whilst I sleep and lay eggs
