Ladybugs - Maya Spector

[Larry Robinson]

Ladybugs

What guides the ladybugs
to cluster every year
in the early winter months
alongside the Stream Trail?
How do they remember,
locate their way back,
find each other?
Clustering on dead logs
and in the sunny patches of 
blackberry brambles, they rest,
lay their eggs, and 
wait for Spring.
 
Why are ladybugs, like salmon
pitting their way back
to the places of their spawning,
smarter than we supposedly
superior humans?
They know to spend the bleak
winter months congregating with
their companions, while we so often think
we must overwinter alone, or only
 
with a few of our nearest and dearest.
 
Here is what ladybugs know:
Rest.
Find your way home.
Huddle up together.
Stay warm.

	- Maya Spector


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