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Remember when you were a kid, and bugs were like, really important.
Come to think of it, everything was really important when you were a kid.
But bugs were definitely near the top. Scarcely a day went by you didn’t
think about a snake, a spider…an asp! But there were good bugs too. You
used to sit in the dry dirt in the playground and watch ant lions make their
little funnels, about the size of a nickel. I think the idea was for an ant to
come wandering by and fall in. Oh, and remember when you would poke
at a pill bug, and it would curl up into a little ball. 1 And remember
whenever someone would spot one of those stink bugs, the whole
playground would be in a frenzy. Now, when you think of bugs, you think
of roaches, mosquitoes, ants—a termite. Bad bugs. You see them as a
nuisance to be either squished, sprayed or ignored. Me too, except I have
to admit whenever I see one of those stink bugs, I do still pretty much run
screaming.
1 Pill bugs also known as sow bugs, rollie-pollies and often mistakenly called
doodlebugs, which is the name reserved for immature ant lions. And besides, I
don’t even think they do that curling-up thing anymore. Nowadays they just keep
going.
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