All those noxious gnats, flies, ticks and fleas
Harmful, quite unlike our bumblebees
They do not help the flowers to grow
Or wild fields about to bloom and show,
Their value is but to birds and frogs
Supplying snacks in vast marsh and bogs.
Now we’d be fine if they were inclined
To spread their germs among their own kind !
Claire V. Bogdanos 