Residential Cooperative | Cottage Grove, Oregon
|
by Greta Loeffelbein - November 15, 2025 While blithely going about my own business the other day, I looked up and saw an unfamiliar round object above me, moving along at a wobbly pace. Soon, it flew down and landed in front of me. Yeegads, a Flying Saucer! What a startlement. Never had I seen something so large of this kind. This UFO* was just over a centimeter long! That may not sound big in general, but let me tell you, strikes the eye as absurdly large for . . . . . . a ladybug! I found myself thinking - - Is it a mutant? Has it eaten too much of someone's lawn fertilizer?
But apparently there is a whole genus of them, called Giant Ladybugs. And this one is actually called - - wait for it - - the Flying Saucer Ladybug! (For the taxonomically-inclined, this is Anatis rathvoni, and, like all "ladybugs", it's a Lady Beetle. And . . . this was indoors, where it flew down from the ceiling.) *or, should I say, UFP - Unidentified Flying Personage Comments are closed.
|
