Fast Food

In a matter of days, the aphids discovered our newly purchased rose bushes.

They clustered around the buds and unfolding leaves, piercing the tender stems and sucking  the plant juices as if there were no tomorrow.

For some of them, there would be no tomorrow.

A ladybug arrived and began feasting on the colony of aphids, like a 10-year-old kid with a bag of french fries from a fast food place.

She gobbled the aphids and then, satiated, off she flew.

With spray from a garden hose, we knocked the aphids off.

Something tells me the aphids will be back.

But so will the ladybugs.