Wheel of Fortune

January 24, 2025

Entomology

Ants are useful creatures, just not at my picnic.
Bedbugs must serve some purpose, but what?
Dung beetles navigate by the Milky Way, looking for love.
Earwigs don't really burrow in your ears.
Fireflies are always welcome in my yard.
Gnats are Gnot so welcome.
Horseflies have bloodsucking females.
Imago is the term for all adult insects.
Jerusalem cricket is hump-backed and slow moving.
Katydid, but perhaps she didn't.
Locusts are quite biblical.
Mosquitos are the bane of Florida.
Nectar scarabs eat pollen and nectar from flowers.
Onion maggots, a cosmopolitan pest of crops.
Pretty pinion moth captured my fancy.
Question mark butterfly has no questions.
Rat fleas caused the bubonic plague.
Scorpion, my sun sign, such a nasty creature.
Tarantula's are not my idea of a pet.
Uliodan is a vagrant spider.
Vaginulus plebius......oops!
White ants are termites...a termite goddess in India.
XerXes butterfly
Yellow butterfly
Zebra swallowtail butterfly.


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Prompt: write an abcdarian poem about animals


The Insect Tarot--7 of Cups--Western Honey Bee--Consider the consequences of your actions.