Wet and Green – Hike to Pua’po’o
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Hiking to Pua’po’o lava tube. Free hike, with ranger escort, every wednesday. The lava tube is amazing! Volcanoes National Park, The Big Island, Hawaii
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my lovely lady bumps
Monday, January 12th, 2009to heck with “catching up”. i’m jumpin’ into random-pattern. since late-summer i’ve had a rotating population of ladybugs in my bathroom, a room where the window is always open at least a bit. they gather at the corners of the ceiling and on the chinese-style paper lantern on the ceiling. just when i think they’ve been there too long, and hence died, they move on. i don’t know why they are there or why they leave. there are no plants with typical lady-bug-gruel like aphids. maybe the room is warm and humid and i’m friendly, so they top for while.
i researched this on the interweb 🙂 and came across people wanting to rid their house of lady bugs. i’ve always considered them a bit of a blessing. beyond their pest-consuming benefits, they don’t buzz around and annoy. they fly from resting place to resting place, but they aren’t like a housefly. so why not just let the lady bug hang out? leave the window open a bit. that is what i do and i rarely find a ladybug carcass. did you know that lady bugs are in the Coccinellidae family in North America and there are about 4,000 species worldwide?
Peggy Rehm