Maybug

I don’t know if you can see it yet (it’s weird to talk in terms of people reading this, but okay…) but my avatar thing is a may bug. It’s not a very cute little creature–actually, it’s kind of gruesome and creepy, but its name sounds so cute.

I usually call the baby The Baby or “he/she” or even, the dreaded “it” when I’m talking about it. (there I go with it!) I don’t know why…it just seems really cute (in the bad way) to refer to an unborn baby as a nickname or even a real person name. In my head, though, I think of it as Maybug.

I didn’t really know that much about the actual bug called a may bug when I started secretly calling it Maybug. I don’t think there are many may bugs where I live, or at least none that I’ve ever seen. They appear to be most native to Europe, and their alternative name is cockchafer, which makes me laugh so much. If I had known that I probably wouldn’t have called the baby Maybug, but it stuck now.

In case you were wondering. Which you probably weren’t.