Gnat...I just saved a gnat!

[WVGal1963]

Just chilling here with dogs and my husband.

A gnat landed in my glass of wine. It was swirling around.

I tried GENTLY to remove it to no avail. It was clearly drowning…clearly drowning.

UNTIL - - I finally got it onto my tiny pinky nail and held my hand out with it on my fingertip toward the sun and warmth. It’s like it got a MOMENT to dry off….and recover….

And then it FLEW!! It fluttered away with those tiny little gnat wings to go onward and do what gnats do.

My Dad would be proud. He taught me to never fear insects, to always appreciate the work that they do for our planet, and to always make sure we take care of them. I know I just did that tonight.

So Happy Saturday night, DU friends!! Go out there and save a gnat, or a spider, or a mouse, or a bee. Take care and LOVE to all!!

[WheelWalker]

1. Like a bug trapped in amber - these are the days of our lives.

[dweller]

2. Gaze closely

Upon the small drunken gnat that just tipped the karmic balance in your favor
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✌🏻

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Why you wastin' protein like that?

[Different Drummer]

4. I feel strongly about not harming insects.

I won't even kill a fly--or a gnat.

[bedazzled]

11. You don't live i. Flori-duh

I try and save spiders, but the roaches are the size of dinosaurs. I dispatch them with majestic heavenly force

[sammythecat]

12. I get it

"Standing, as all living beings are, before this dilemma of the will to live, a person is constantly forced to preserve his own life, and life in general, only at the cost of other life. If he has been touched by the ethic of reverence for life, he injures and destroys life only under a necessity he cannot avoid, and never from thoughtlessness." — Albert Schweitzer

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I have wasps that have built a nest in an ornamental birdhouse by my front door.

They pay no attention to me when I'm sitting just a couple feet away so I just let them be. They are vital to a healthy ecosystem.

[Sneederbunk]

6. He won't be back.

[Lettuce Be]

7. Imagine the story he's telling right now!

[onethatcares]

8. I did gnat see that coming

when I opened this thread.

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. He's been in cow poop

Enjoy your wine. :}

[Disaffected]

10. Good on ya!

All life has value. I even fish insects out of the horse trough water and revive moribund bees found in my garage (place them under an inverted glass tumbler with a folded paper towel soaked in sugar water). When I find insects in the house, I trap them in a tumbler and piece of cardboard and release them outside.