Bad Bugs

Spotted Cucumber Beetle. Bad spotted cucumber beetle. They've already chewed on the rose petals. I get fooled because they remind me of lady bugs. Warm and fuzzy. Next time I will dispatch them forthwith.

By the way, I have just started to read Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann. It appears to be one long sentence, running on for nearly a thousand pages. The first thing I noticed is that it is exhausting to read such a thing: there is nowhere to stop, nowhere to rest your eyes, no paragraphs, you can't put it down, it is also charming, funny, clever, brutal, satirical, sad, insightful, poetic... Help!