Pets Or Pests

Look what paid us a visit today.
Well, actually I didn't let them in.
I brought this pot of orange seedlings into the house
to liven up my desk with
something green.
I remembered washing some soil off the leaves
after I transferred them to the glass container
four days ago.
The eggs must have slipped my eyes.

Look, it is not alone.
Pets or pests which shall they be?
Pets?
I can be a snooper
as these larvae turn to be pupae
Pests?
Reality came in through the windows
as I watched those strong jaws.
Pets?
I used to tear open pupas
This time I can watch metamorphosis
Pests?
What voracious appetite!
If I only know how many days
it would take for them to get
to the pupal stage.

They can defoliate my seedlings.
Seedling that I've waited months to grow.

I would want an orange tree or two...

Pests!
They have to go!