Definitely Lija! She has a 90 year old penpal in AZ who shares her love for bugs. He is a person my dad grew up in the same neighborhood as and has become an "uncle" in our family. He's the one that has sent her scorpions. Whenever he finds a dead bug or a nice newspaper clipping, it goes in the mail to her. Last time we were at half price books, she picked out 2 insect books and one about newly discovered animals.

Don't mind her disastrously messy hair in this pic...she is too busy digging for bugs in the summer to get it out of her face apparently. How many little girls do you know are that thrilled to dig up a bug? I think they are stag beetles? Not sure, you would have to ask her, bugs are not my forte LOL

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Reading time...did you know a black widow has stronger venom than a rattlesnake? And there are 120 different kinds of trapdoor spiders? Or maybe that king cobras can be brown, green, yellow, or black? That's what I got to hear about as she read that.

I should dig up her research paper and copy it on here.

Don't get me wrong, her obsession with bugs is equaled by her obsession for Pokemon, Ninjago, and My Little Pony. Her love for bugs is just the longest lasting to this point, considering it started from toddlerhood.