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The story below refers to Donna's ladybug pictures.
How does a photographer get this shot? This artist laid on her belly in the grass, while her husband mowed around her. She laid among the ladybugs - a population of about 80 for an hour, watching them, predicting their moves, working on manual, and flash clicking, hoping what she saw in the camera would be what she actually got. Yes, she was covered in ladybugs. So was her camera. White she was shooting, there were two ladybugs sitting on top of her camera. So, she went native with the ladybugs, hoping her breath was not disrupting their performance.
When the photographer got up, she was fully damp from the lawn moisture. She played with the little bugs a bit more, till she turned her attention back to flowers. This ladybug looks like he is hanging on above a great fall back into the lawn. What the ladybug does in this predicament is:
1) fall and hang on, so he walks upside down. Those little feet hang on at all cost.
2) He walks across to the next grass tip, and walks across the tips of the grass.
3) He opens his wings and flies down to the base of the grass again to begin his ascent.
I can only think he is eating. There's grass pollen. As he climbs the grass blade, they must be doing something. The ladybugs are covered in little bits of dust, which I think is not dust, but pollen. For this reason, they harvest the grass. Ladybugs love to live where there is leaf cover in the grass. The more foliage left on the grass the better. It gives them cover as they overwinter. Then, in the spring, they all come back out where they hibernated, and off they go. This population was very healthy and happy.
