LLA - The Ladybug Liberation Army

I like to think that my youngest daughter is just following a calling. Which at this point is the rescue of wayward ladybugs.

The other day we were at a park tossing a ball back and forth. I frequently had to stop as she herded some newly spotted ladybug out of harms way. And at school, she checks the classroom's fancy bug house first thing in the morning to make sure there are no ladybugs stuck inside. She confided to me that along with another girl she has been freeing them outside. Oh my, she has co-conspirators...

occasionally a ladybug will find its way into our house. She will coax it onto her hand for relocation outside. Her determination is strong. Ladybugs are not bugs to be squashed. A ladybug death is a sad event. But earwig and other crawlers are "Ewwwww!". Yucky bugs are left to daddy - the spider and other creepy bug wrangler.

If years from now you hear that my daughter is the ringleader of a notorious activist group ... well, it all started here.