Insects in the Garden Verses

       Insects in the Garden Verses 

     Dr Abe V Rotor

Squash beetle (Epilachna), Order Coleoptera  


If I make you into a ring,
Necklace or earring,
I rob the garden of beauty
and myself of dignity.

Annual cicada (Tibicen).  The male makes a shrilling 
call, attracting a would-be mate. Female cicadas 
are generally voiceless.     

The shrill of a Romeo, a love call since,
reverberates through trees, across the fields
until a maiden comes, obligingly yields; 
the singing stops, a new season begins.



Plant lice (Psylla) Order Homoptera, 
scourge of ipil-ipil (Leucaena glauca)


Psylla, Psylla everywhere
on buds and twigs and all;
lice to eggs and eggs to lice,
in cycle bidding for time,
'til your inevitable fall
and your last host dies.


 
Sulfur butterfly (Terrias hecabe) Order Lepidoptera


Sulfur - that you got your name -
Amorphous.  Beautiful.
Fancy. Bane. ~