All Posts Tagged ‘milkweed beetles’

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Trying to Get to the Top

August 27, 2019
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                                                               that
                                                           top that
                                                       so many are
                                                   struggling to get to

                               Is it worth all of the time & competition?
      Is surpassing and suppressing those below and impressing those above worth it?
When you finally get to the top, is there really genuine happiness there or is it an empty lie?!

 

 

Getting to the Top … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2019

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So here we are, Master FourEyes

August 20, 2019
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So here we are, Master FourEyes,
and i don’t think that what i write
will change things enough

and i don’t think that what you
nibble on will change things enough
… and that’s OK; it’s OK

And when we look at each other
each other we are
And when each other
we together look at oneself

Our unbelievable now is more timeless 
than any dead(stone-cold temple that replaced the prairies)
while Mr. Death — whom so many fear — has nothing on us

because we livingly understand him(and smile with and beyond him)
more than teardrops grow upwards
and flowers flow down

 

 

Master FourEyes… who happens to be a Milkweed Beetle on, of all places, a Milkweed Plant … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2019

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Warmth…

November 23, 2014
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Happiness isn’t a warm gun; happiness is a warm (compassionate) heart.

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[Red Milkweed Beetles, I think, are among the most evolved and “intelligent” insects in our area.  As I’ve mentioned before, sometimes when I approach Milkweed Plants these beetles will deliberately fly at a rapid rate into me, striking my face repeatedly to entice me to leave.  Some panic and fly away.  This one decided to “play dead.”  It fell from a Milkweed leaf above.  After I backed up and watched from a distance for a while… it subsequently straightened itself out and flew away.  I laughed at its ruse!]

May he rest in peace! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

May he rest in peace! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

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(Multi-photo Post)*** Go beyond the superficiality of seeing yourself as separate from the whole of life!

July 12, 2014
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. Go beyond the superficiality of seeing yourself as separate from the whole of life! .

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.(Milkweed Beetle and Fruit-fly on a Milkweed plant.  Note how the Fruit-fly  gradually moves in and feasts right adjacent to the precarious jaws (i.e., large, dangerous mandibles) of the Milkweed Beetle.  The Fruit-fly’s jaws are too diminutive to successfully rasp at the Milkweed flower buds… so the Fruit-fly moves in and joins the “powerful” Milkweed Beetle… right adjacent to its “massive” jaws!  Milkweed Beetles are quite “aware” for insects; in our area they sometimes roughly bang against my head – with their whole, flying bodies – to “warn” me to stay away from their precious Milkweed plants!)

 

Fruit-fly observing the Milkweed Beetle beginning to eat! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

Fruit-fly observing the Milkweed Beetle beginning to eat! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

Fruit-fly trying to eat the Milkweed Beetle's scraps from a distance! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

Fruit-fly trying to eat the Milkweed Beetle’s scraps from a distance! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

Fruit-fly eating right next to the jaws of a Milkweed Beetle! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014

Fruit-fly eating right next to the jaws of a Milkweed Beetle! Photo by Thomas Peace 2014