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Minutiae II

Not all the bugs are friends to me.  Though the dragonflies alight everywhere while I'm outside, keeping colorful company, and the butterflies and moths are beautiful, there are those that make me exclaim "Get AWAY from me! I don't want to be your friend!" or, as yesterday, when spying a large, brown, freaky spider on the dank basement steps, "Oh, it's large and scary, definitely large and scary...".  Or the evil black hornets or cranky yellowjackets,which, winging my way, make me shriek "Ai!" and run like a two year old.  No, as in everything, not every denizen of the insect world charms me. Although I do have a tense truce with the hornets who drink water from the saucers on the plant table.