Quit bugging me!

I don't know what it is with insects lately, but they are really bugging me!

 This morning I stepped away from my honeyed lemon tea to throw a load of curtains in the washer. As I'm tossing the curtains in evenly, an earwig comes out of... somewhere... and dives into one of the curtain folds. So I did what any hot blooded creature would do. I shut the lid and hit start. I figured either he will go the "all drains lead to the ocean" route (except we have a septic system so hmmm...) or he will survive and be thankful for his energetic, sudsy bath. I didn't see him in the tub of the washer when I took the curtains out, nor did I find him in the dryer lint trap, sooooooo your guess is as good as mine as to his location.

I went to recover my tea and not only was there a fruit fly perched on the edge of the rim, there was another one swimming merrily along!

AND one of my besties neglected to keep watch over her drink this weekend while she was outside and was stung right on the lip by a bee for her negligence. 

Just goes to show, ladies: never leave your drink unattended.

 

"Watch out for Never-bugs. Little ones."

The title quote is what Pan tells the smallest Lost Boy at the end of "Hook" featuring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. Fantastic movie. I'm often aware of bugs, so I'd probably have been pretty good at those instructions.

A pretty little friend hangin' out by my broom

No, I didn't glue an eyebrow to the wall. That'd be Guillermo. I don't like the idea of him being able to kamikaze me from above whilst I'm on the throne, but what can you do? The next time I looked, he was gone.

Yesterday I harvested my lupine seeds which meant I pulled them all off the stalk parts, broke the hairy pods open, rounded up the seeds into my container. I probably had 150 pods or so. I cracked open my third-to-last one and out busts an earwig! Talk about heebie jeebies! He ran around in a frenzy on the tray where I was working and I backed up quick before he ran under the table. So glad I was almost done! 😅