Now I feel so bad about suggesting more Shire time. 🤦♀️ or maybe I’m happy about it because we got this great story from it? Or maybe I have nothing to do with it but I will find a way to make it about me, don’t you worry! But seriously, thank you for this story.
I kept reading news stories about why the fireflies in the New York area have been particularly abundant this year and last year. But now with this insight, I'm going to attach a lot more meaning to that than just their scientific explanations.
I also love that line about good reasons for fighting kids. I want to read more about that, as I'm sure you can imagine!
I’ll come back to these comments after I’ve fully processed the carnage.
P.S. I, too, love lightning bugs. They’re a representation of the best parts of my childhood, along with sparklers, honeysuckle, wild raspberry bushes, and (of course) the chirping of crickets.
Oh my god, Charlie. I couldnt even watch the clip!! It would have destroyed me even though....Nature. Nature is the only thing we can count on yet humans try valiantly to fuck that up too. My intellect can sort out the death of one creature to feed another but omg. I'm too tender-hearted. Fireflies are SO special. A few years ago I wrote a poem about one that was crawling around next to me during the day. I feel similarly about dragonflies. Spiders both fascinate and terrify me. I recorded an absolutely magnificent orb weaver this spring...doing it's thing in a very prominent place. I had to remove one sticky string of its 4 foot in diameter web so I could put my trash out. I got close ups of it rebuilding elsewhere, hiding, catching, devouring. It's breathtaking and brutal. I'll probably get to your video, but these days I feel ( like most of us) scraped too raw. Even a tiny death seems unbearable. I have a parakeet in very bad shape. I keep meaning to bring it to the vet. I even made the appointment, but I'm pretty sure it needs to be euthanized, and I just can't do it. It has a cage companion who seems vastly invested in its friend. But the sick one often falls off it's perch. I put water and a millet spray and even blueberries on the bottom of the cage. I had a budgie with a tumor under its wing once. The vet x rayed it only to tell me it had to be put down ( which I knew) What I DIDNT know was that a budgie x ray would set me back 300 bucks!! And the quote I got over the phone about my current little feathered friend was 180. For a few drops of life taking medication in a tiny syringe. Good Lord. Right now it is compromised but still warbling. I have to let it be.
I also couldn't watch the firefly being eaten but yes, I also understand that the spider also needs to eat and this is just life. But poor firefly. You also, would have been fighting me as a child since I was the one out and trying to catch some firefly friends. I do so occasionally now but only to let them rest on my hand before letting them go.
Now I feel so bad about suggesting more Shire time. 🤦♀️ or maybe I’m happy about it because we got this great story from it? Or maybe I have nothing to do with it but I will find a way to make it about me, don’t you worry! But seriously, thank you for this story.
Oh Corynne! I love your quirky self awareness
I kept reading news stories about why the fireflies in the New York area have been particularly abundant this year and last year. But now with this insight, I'm going to attach a lot more meaning to that than just their scientific explanations.
I also love that line about good reasons for fighting kids. I want to read more about that, as I'm sure you can imagine!
There are, indeed, better reasons to fight a child, but I'd like to hear what yours are.
I’ll come back to these comments after I’ve fully processed the carnage.
P.S. I, too, love lightning bugs. They’re a representation of the best parts of my childhood, along with sparklers, honeysuckle, wild raspberry bushes, and (of course) the chirping of crickets.
Oh my god, Charlie. I couldnt even watch the clip!! It would have destroyed me even though....Nature. Nature is the only thing we can count on yet humans try valiantly to fuck that up too. My intellect can sort out the death of one creature to feed another but omg. I'm too tender-hearted. Fireflies are SO special. A few years ago I wrote a poem about one that was crawling around next to me during the day. I feel similarly about dragonflies. Spiders both fascinate and terrify me. I recorded an absolutely magnificent orb weaver this spring...doing it's thing in a very prominent place. I had to remove one sticky string of its 4 foot in diameter web so I could put my trash out. I got close ups of it rebuilding elsewhere, hiding, catching, devouring. It's breathtaking and brutal. I'll probably get to your video, but these days I feel ( like most of us) scraped too raw. Even a tiny death seems unbearable. I have a parakeet in very bad shape. I keep meaning to bring it to the vet. I even made the appointment, but I'm pretty sure it needs to be euthanized, and I just can't do it. It has a cage companion who seems vastly invested in its friend. But the sick one often falls off it's perch. I put water and a millet spray and even blueberries on the bottom of the cage. I had a budgie with a tumor under its wing once. The vet x rayed it only to tell me it had to be put down ( which I knew) What I DIDNT know was that a budgie x ray would set me back 300 bucks!! And the quote I got over the phone about my current little feathered friend was 180. For a few drops of life taking medication in a tiny syringe. Good Lord. Right now it is compromised but still warbling. I have to let it be.
I also couldn't watch the firefly being eaten but yes, I also understand that the spider also needs to eat and this is just life. But poor firefly. You also, would have been fighting me as a child since I was the one out and trying to catch some firefly friends. I do so occasionally now but only to let them rest on my hand before letting them go.