No Stone Unturned
Turning over stones can be overly unpleasant
due to all the denizens likely to be present.
Yet I profess it’s cowardly to just let them lie,
I’m sure you’ll prove your manliness and flip them by and by!
For Pensitivity’s Three Things Challenge, the words are: STONE UNPLEASANT COWARDLY.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Lovely poetic response to the prompt words. And I just had to Google the bug. He’s a big-eared blister beetle, which is one of the coolest critter names I’ve seen in awhile! https://www.texasento.net/Cissites.htm
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I followed ForgottenMan’s lead and looked up the big-eared blister beetle. This is what I discovered about them. Fascinating: “Meloids (blister beetles) are perhaps the most widespread and diverse coleopteran bee parasites. All known triungulin larvae develop in the nests of bees. Adults often feed on leaves and flowers; the larvae feed on nectar and pollen, and most do so in the nests of bees. A toxic substance, cantharadin, is present in the adults, eggs, and larvae (Blum 1981). Such a chemical might deter a host bee from attacking this parasite.
A tiny larva, or group of larvae, attaches to a foraging bee on the hairs, legs, or antennae and are subsequently transported back to the bee’s nest (Bush-Pirkle 2000). Alternatively, adult female meloids locate the open nest of a bee and then deposit eggs near the burrow (Crowson 1981, Kistner 1982). Within the bee nest, the beetle larva molts through a series of successively more grub-like and sedentary larvae, as it feeds on pollen stores. (See blister beetle life cycle diagram, Univ. FL.) The resemblance between meloid larvae and those of bees helps to explain the fact that they are even fed by honeybee workers while in the nest (Bailey 1981)”
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I have only ever seen one–this one–on the ground near my kitchen door. Had to snap this photo. Looks like he’s dressed up or Halloween.
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Neatly poetic
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Nice one. Thanks for joining in Judy.
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A good one to repeat every time I flip one of the many rocks over on my place, but unless it is too large I have learned to do it with a stick. I have been stung, stuck, sucked, plunked or bit too many times, but I still do it, so thanks for your metaphorical sensory imagery~!
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I let lying stones lie!!!!
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I try to, but with those human altercation types of stones, I sometimes wish that I had a big stick~!
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Ah–rock baseball.
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Ha, I finally put your rocking poem to another level~! I am sending a GREAT photo and a (comment on your book) via google, so look for them.
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Do you mean via email, Sam? Don’t know what “via Google” means. I got the photo of yoour arm, if that is what you mean..
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Judy, I also sent you a comment on your book, via email, or “Google”… Ha~! I sometimes do this when I feel that the correspondence is just between we two or if I want to send photos. Sorry if it confuses you, I know that you do not check on your emails on a regular basis.
So don’t take this as a “suggestion” but rather as my Gorking your book~!
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I check constantly but my email is so on the blink It keeps wanting me to enter my password, then sends me the emails with only the name of the person who sent it… not the message. When I try to answer it, it then sometimes gives me the message, so I got the one with the photo of your arm that your baby has tattooed for you. Is that the one you are talking about?
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Okay, got them. But, you have to come up with a better name to make me abandon my old one!
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Still haven’t received the comments on my book.
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Philosophically poetic.
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