Look at the cool thing on my car! No, not the crow-and-inverted-pentagram decal--although I concede that's pretty sweet. Down in the lower right hand corner of the photo.


It's a ladybeetle pupa! My back bumper is a strange place for a baby ladybug to decide to metamorphose, but it's a very clever way for the insect to travel a good distance from where it hatched.