It's Autumn

My favorite thing about the weather changing as nature gets ready for winter - this brief transition time called Fall - is rescuing damselfly eggs.

Have you ever done that? Seen a damselfly (female dragonfly) cold and seemingly dead on the sidewalk and brought it inside where it proceeds to lay two eggs and then leaves this world. And then saved those eggs till Spring and put them on a reed by a lake so they could hatch in the warm air and then spend the next couple of years growing up in the water and then finally becoming an airborne insect where they would fly 100 miles an hour catching and eating smaller insects mid flight?

It definitely helps me wait out the winter. I was trying to take a picture of this damselfly's eggs but in the process I lost them. They are very small and amber and nearly transparent.

The more I get to know insects the more I like this world. They are just so tiny and complex and all fascinatingly different from each other.

I remember in Grade Seven hearing the word cephalothorax for the first time. It thrilled me. It is still my favorite word. I heard it once while we were watching a spider video in Science class.

It is just occurring to me that I might be classed as an insect person. Someone who prefers the company of insects to many of the other creatures on the planet.

Maybe it helps that mosquitoes will usually land on my arm and smell my blood and then fly away. And wasps and bees have been known to eat out of my hand. I don't have much negative association in my experience with insects and they are low maintenance physically and emotionally. So with very little effort on my part I get to feel like a good person in meeting the needs of my little friends. And they entertain me. And then I entertain you!