Caring for Tiny Creatures

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As spring returns, all of the earth’s tiniest creatures resurface to greet us. As long as they stay outside, I am happy to help them along their way and make their day a little easier. Just yesterday, I rescued a ladybug from the hot tub cover by gently offering her a leaf to climb onto. I will also safely remove any spider from the house, up to medium size, but I don’t like the big ones. Thankfully, I have a husband who finds them beautiful.

As we put the winter birdfeeders away, we turn our attention to the bees and set up some mason bee tubes. The cocoons can be removed in the fall and kept in a little cardboard box in the fridge to hibernate for the winter. Then you release them next spring when it’s warm again and they hatch and begin their important pollinating work.

There’s a funny story about my husband, who was a city bus driver in Vancouver. On his breaks, he would often share some of the jam off his daily PB&J sandwich with some wasps he had befriended at the end of the line. One day, as he was feeding these wasps on top of a fire hydrant and chatting away to them happily abut what good little wasps they were and how much they were enjoying the jam, he turned around to see a group of amazed Japanese tourists watching him. They refused to get on his bus and said they would wait for the next one because they thought he had lost his mind.

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