Fly away home
Back in March I posted about Dadisodes going away on a business trip. As usual, he came home bearing an incredibly bizarre gift for our daughter.
Remember Ladybug Land?
Perhaps this photo will jog your memory.
Yes, despite my explicit directions for him not to buy our daughter a stuffed animal while away on business, he decided that live ones were okay.
Live animals that would arrive on our doorstep in the form of maggots.
Yum!
Despite my concerted efforts to hide the mailing form, Dadisodes was on top of it and sent away for the critters immediately.
The time sensitive package arrived while we were away in Florida. *Grin*
Dadisodes called from Key Largo to arrange for an emergency ladybug sitter to pick them up at our house. *Frown*
Who the heck did I marry?!
Anyhow, we missed the maggot phase while we were away on vacation and I prayed long and hard that none of the little buggers would make it. However, most of them have now transformed.
We are now proud owners of eight little ladybugs. And they are actually kind of cute, as far as bugs go.
That is until I fall asleep and dream about them escaping from their little habitat. Just so they can crawl into my ears. And then scrape at my eardrum with their tiny, black legs. While I contemplate violently ramming a chopstick in my ear to crush them. But I won’t, because the last thing I need is bug guts slathered along my ear canal.
As for the remaining larvae? Well, they are still pupas.
Supa-dupa.
I hope those buggers never hatch.
Did I say that out loud?
(You’re welcome for not zooming)
Well, it beats Sea Monkeys. At least lady bugs are kind of pretty, Sea Monkeys (brine shrimp) just look like back wash.
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May 21st, 2009 at 10:37 pm
I would just die! Seriously, I would curl up and die if my husband ordered that!
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May 21st, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Reminds me of the prehistoric Triops my SIL gave my kids. They were really creepy!
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May 21st, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I had a friend who bought this for their children and they loved it!
I bet your daughter is so fascinated by this!!
LOL @ your story!! Ha!
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Lady bugs were meant to live in nature. Maybe you can convince Babisoides that they would be happier outside in the wild.
Ladybug Ladybug fly away home. Your house is on fire and your children are alone. Ummm…maybe you could tweak that old nursery rhyme to be not so traumatic and more positive?
Maybe you could make an outdoor ladybug home? If they leave just tell her that they found a better place, you know, one with a swimming pool.
As you can tell, there was no way Ladybugs were going to move into my house! They tried! They tried many times.
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:18 pm
LOL..we posted on each others blogs at the same time!!!!!!!!
As my kids would say, “Jinx..you’re it!”
May 21st, 2009 at 11:18 pm
We once got butterflies in the mail. It was so much fun to watch the process. I might have to look up the lady bug land. My youngest would love it.
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:27 pm
My daughter would LOVE Ladybug Land. Trust me, it could be worse. My husband captures giant spiders for our daughter, puts them in a bug house and leaves it lying around the house.
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Oh, you are lucky you don’t have my boys. Ladybugs in a cage? Tame. And you didn’t even have to see them in the larvae stage!
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Supa-Dupa! LOL Yeah…I’m sure my kiddos would love it as well! I might actually have to look into ordering some! (Still laughing at supa-dupa!)
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I love ladybugs! They are my kind of my thing. Needless to say, *I* think it was a totally cool gift!
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:52 pm
LOL-ing forever, especially at your postscript. And you knew there was no way you were getting out of those maggots; Dadisodes strikes me as quite conscientious.
At least they’re supposed to be good luck if they land on you, right? Ah, sweet superstition.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 am
Seriously? I love it! Send them to meeeeeee! lol
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May 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 am
Thats crazy! But at the same time kind of interesting.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 1:20 am
Awww! They’re so… cute?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 am
That is something my husband would do to torture me!! I HATE bugs…especially ones with supa dupa pupa!! Hee, hee, hee.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 am
After all, the man IS a geek. Well, maybe not a total geek, but he has strong geek tendencies. I mean, he can’t be TOO bad, can he? He was smart enough to marry YOU, after all, so he couldn’t be TOTALLY geeked out.
I know … give him a list of acceptable toys/gifts, etc. Like …
Kungfu Barbie
The Martha Stewart Toy Bar and Grill Set
G.I. Jane (GI Joe’s girlfriend)
Or – a gift certificate to eHarmony.com
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May 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 am
I know you quoted The Wonder Pets;)
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
oh my what a interesting present your hubby has given her. I believe bugs should remain out-of-doors….. good luck with your larva!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:32 am
Ooh I actually think that’s really cool, can I get some?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:38 am
Larvae. Yuck. Eweeee. But look how pretty they became! The miracles of nature. *sigh* (I would be so glad tooo for missing that larvea stage!)
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
That’s sweet of your husband to want to give something special to your daughter, but did it have to be gross? How do you feed them anyways? LOL
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May 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
Nope, never seen that before.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 am
I’m now listening to Abba’s “Super Trooper” and will likely have it stuck in my head all day. Something about “supa-dupa” made me want to listen to it. Maybe I’ll listen to “Puttin’ on the Ritz” next. That’s, um, quite the habitat for ladybugs. Is Babisodes as thrilled with it as Dadisodes?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Uhm, beam them over here. I need them for the critters that kill my roses and bushes
Btw. what on earth do they eat in that glass bubble?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 11:08 am
Wow – that’s crazy! I’m not letting my hubby see this FOR SURE b/c that is totally something he would bring home for our kids!!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 am
Cool!! Lady bugs really aren’t so bad but we have SO MANY here that I could have just sent you a dozen or more. lol!
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
I always love Dadisode’s gifts! What kid wouldn’t love that?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 am
sounds lovely. did your little one enjoy her new pets?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Tell Babisodes that ladybugs need to be FREEEEEEE then take the little buggers outside and let them loose! She can have fun hunting for them in the yard all summer long!
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Sounds like something my husband would get for our grandkids. I think I’ll have to tell him about this. The kids would love it and the larvae would be sent to my daughter’s house. Perfect!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
My next door neighbor is trying to catch the lady bugs that have been eating his tree. Maybe I can send some to dadisode so he doesn’t have to shell out the money?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Ok, that’s just hilarious! Interestingly, my husband recently dared me to Google how many spiders a human consumes over the course of a year…while sleeping. Gag. Seriously. He said we all accidentally eat like seven spiders a year. The great thing is it turned out to be an urban legend, so I’m thinking the ladybug would have like zero interest in crawling in to your ear at night. But, you never know. Could you tape the container shut so they never, ever, ever, ever escape???
Back to hilarious! Totally hilarious!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I think I can take it as I used to breed butterflies! LOL
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
My sister, with whom we are in a noisy/annoying toy war, one year sent an amphibian farm. Seriously. You sent away for tadpoles, and watched them turn into frogs.
Except…Ours never did.
I have not ever managed to figure out how we could have arrested those poor tadpoles in their prepubescent state. But we did.
I finally threw them in the nearest pond. It was a mercy killing. Proud supporter of pet euthanasia.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Seriously?!?!?! People pay MONEY for them??? I’m going to be a millionaire!! They swarm our house twice a year. I killed over 200 last swarm. I’ll ship them up to Dadisodes next swarm!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I think the ladybugs are really cool! I’ve been wanting to do this with my girls, too. You may remember we hatched butterflies around Easter. See, now that kind of skeeved me, truth be told. The cocoons were gross looking and no one told me that meconium would be squirted all over the butterfly home. It’s been left in hanging in the tree because i don’t want to clean that yucky stuff. I’ll wipe a baby’s bottom and scrub toilets, but don’t make me clean up butterfly sh*t.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Ladybugs are cool but larvae are NOT. Also, all insects belong outside. I hope you can convince Babisodes to let them free. Maybe you can tell her they need to live in Ladybug Land and be free. Good luck!
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May 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
LoveLoveLove the idea! Beats the roly-polies (how the hell do you pluralize that?) my kids have been sneaking in.
“SUPA-DUPA!”
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May 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
You know, I never thought about ladybugs being larvae first. I think larvae are OK outside, but I wouldn’t want them in my house.
That is one dedicated ladybug dad.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Called from vacation to find a “sitter” OYE! I would have been threatening divorce. Really. Truly.
Just hope Babisodes doesn’t drop it! *eek*
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May 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Now this is a science project I can get into. How cool! After they hatch of course. I like your blog!
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
It’s had to imagine what’s going through his mind when he ordered the lady bugs. Maybe he wants Babisodes to experience a , uh, scientific experiment?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Seriously, you can use this against him in divorce court should it ever end up that way. This is just wrong!!! And now I’m going to have nightmares about ladybugs…they are good for gardens though. Perhaps an early release program is in order.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Ewww….bugs. I only like certain variety of bugs and only when they are outside. Bugs do not belong inside…ever! Yuck! *shudder*
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Ladybugs I think I could deal with. An ant farm, though? Not a chance.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
LOL, just don’t let him bring her hermit crabs next…
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
My kids just had to have hermit crabs. After the third one we stopped trying.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I dunno. I kind of like them.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
great story–my daughter is school teacher, she has a similar story you might like to read:
http://gkthayn.blogspot.com/2009/05/lifes-lesson-learned.html
Hope you can stop by to view my photo hunt Thanks so much.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 am
thats kind of cute actually even though i dont like bugs!
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May 23rd, 2009 at 1:53 am
Two summers my girls got the exact same thing! Yeah the lil’ maggots arriving were damn freaky – you are so glad you missed that part.
Ladybugs in your eardrum huh? You crack me up. I never went that far with my escaping from their habitat worry. I was more concerned we would forget to give them that drop of water and they would shrivel up and die.
I actually loved it when we set them free in our backyard….I may have even shed a tear.
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May 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 am
Ok that is weird… very cool for kids… but weird
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May 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 am
We had one of these, once. As soon as the lady bugs hatched we let them go in the garden. I didn’t want to take a chance that they would escape in the house, LOL. (And, they really are great bugs to have in the garden!).
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May 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
Heh. That looks like something I’d buy my daughter (L) in a couple of years (right now, she’d just want to hold them). By the way, if your ladybugs all die let me know and I’ll send you some more…they somehow get into our upstairs (through the attic, I think) …
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May 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 am
I’ve grown ladybirds like that before. It’s quite fun. Butterflies are better, though. I’d love to try Lacewings. They have golden eyes.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I wouldn’t be happy with those, either, although they are kind of cute. C has the same aversion to insects that I do, so I don’t think those would have gone over with him at Babisodes’s age.
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May 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
L.O.L.!! i had to emphasize! that was too funny! may my future hubster never bring home varmint!
May 24th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Yikes! We just had sea monkeys. I kept forgetting to feed them. Oops!
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May 24th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
ew, I had no idea ladybugs had a maggot phase.
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May 24th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hehehe, you made me giggle. Could be so much worse, I guess, but I’m glad those are at your house and not mine.
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May 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Oh my, I have never seen such a thing before!
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May 25th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Aww! I love ladybugs!
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May 25th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
LMAO!! my dad used to pay us 25cents for every ladybug we found. They apparently eat the aphids!
trisha
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May 25th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I like ladybugs in the garden where they munch on all the ugly bugs that I hate. Not sure I would enjoy them in the house. I guess I’ll skip sending you this gift (hee hee) http://www.amazon.com/World-Alive-Praying-Mantis-Kit/dp/B000FJ2HAC
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May 25th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Haha he’s really your geek extraordinaire, which is just darn cute. I’m sure the bugs will die soon, cooped up like that. Maybe you can encourage Babisodes to set them free.
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May 26th, 2009 at 2:46 am
Be glad he didn’t get her sea monkeys
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May 26th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
TOo funny! Reminds me of the ant farm I agreed to last summer. The kids are asking if we can do it again this summer. There is nothing more that I want than to go and dig up an ant hill just so I can take into my home. Ahhh… gotta love it!
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Oh my … I see life is still interesting in YOUR world ;–)
Hugs and blessings,
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May 27th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
katelyn and jacob LOVE ladybugs. Lucky (or unlucky?) for me, my MIL’s garden are always full of them! So every time I pick them up, they have a couple of new ladybugs in a little styrofoam cup to bring home. And, yes, they’ve been released accidentally and never to be seen again inside the house. I think you are luckier to actually have a “house” for them…
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May 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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May 28th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
I heart ladybugs! What a good idea for kids! They are so not grossed out by stuff we are, eh? (Belated welcome home!!)
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May 31st, 2009 at 12:01 pm