10/18/08

Date: 10/18/08
Time: 1430-1500 hours
Location: my dorm room
Weather: sunny

I was sitting in my room enjoying a cup of tea with a friend when I happened to look out the window through the one blind that is missing. I noticed a little dark dot making its way across the glass and was instantly halted in my conversation. I jumped up, quickly moved across the room, and seized said dark spot. It was a very large, orange ladybug. I was rather surprised to see this bug out and about this time of year and continued to examine the little bugger. It had white spots on the sides of its thorax and twelve black spots on its abdomnen. It had scrunched itself as tightly as it could into a ball. I assume it was a defense mechanism. As I went to place it out my window, the instant the sunlight hit it, it opened up, ran to the end of my finger, and flew off. I was kind of surprised that it did exactly what I wanted it to.