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Hatching a Plan

awareness beauty meditations on life nature May 07, 2023
ladybug on dandelion

Ladybugs have 4 stages to 

Complete metamorphosis.

 

The egg stage is the most 

Vulnerable—strength in numbers.

 

If not eaten, they hatch into

Spikey little alligator-like larva.

 

Then they eat—a bunch, even their

Sibling eggs; or scale, adelgids, and aphids.

 

These larva molt 4 times—growing

Past the limitations of their shells,

 

Before balling up under a leaf

In an orange, armadillo-like pupae.

 

Inside this pupae, they melt

And are completely reformed.

 

Finally emerging as an adult,

Again vulnerable—soft for awhile,

 

Leaking an off-putting smell and taste,

Until their shell finally hardens. 

 

And when the weather is warm,

They unfold their origami wings—and fly.


Huddling up with thousands of close

Friends when the cold comes again.

 

I wonder if the larva ever dream

Of what they will become?

 

Something inside of them, 

Hatching a plan all along.

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