I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown.

从某种程度上来说，我是一名蚂蚁生物学家，所以我开始思考我们对昆虫的生命有什么了解，并且我知道昆虫世界对于人类而言仍有许多未知的领域。

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Last week, I had to prepare an oral report about any insect or animal, so I decided to make my presentation about mariquitas, or ladybugs.

下个礼拜，我不得不做一个关于动物或昆虫的口头报告，所以我决定做一个关于mariquitas的，或者叫做瓢虫。

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However, I didn't want to talk about any common insect. Therefore, I thought of making my presentation about mariquitas.

然而，我并不想讲一些普通的昆虫，我想做一个关于mariquitas的演讲。

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Watching her inspect the carcass of an insect on my windowsill one afternoon, I found myself thinking, I have fallen in love with your strangeness.

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The blue notebooks that neatly lined the south wall of my room were reserved for "Maps of People Doing Things, " as opposed to the green notebooks on the east wall, which contained zoological, geological, and topographical maps, or the red notebooks on the west wall, which was where I mapped out insect anatomy in case my mother, Dr. Clair Linneaker Spivet, ever called upon my services.

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Within the next hour, tiny pewees and hefty puffbirds, insect-eating tyrants and egg-snatching toucans had paraded in front of my cabin, each newcomer more brightly feathered than the last.

WSJ: Bird Watching in Misiones Province, Argentina