The Greatness of Small

Spiders – Arachnids From the tiny pinhead Samoan Moss spider To the huge Tarantula with legs spreading wider Exists a diverse and interesting creature With many a color and many a feature Comparing ounce by ounce with steel A spider’s silk is much stronger and real Made up of proteins, natures building blocks That can absorb even the most violent shocks Honey Bees – Apoidea These amazing insects with incredible ability From honey production to their communal civility As the dance and waggle to show direction Towards nectar and pollen for their collection Using the sun as a reference for flight Seeing with their eyes the ultraviolet light Carrying their loads on electrostatic legs Back to the hive for their larvae and eggs Leaf Cutting Ants – Apoidea These small busy insects with dynamic strength That can carry a leaf five times its length Way underground, into chambered nest With vigor and vitality and so much zest To lay down these leaves to feed its batch Of harvest fungus in their garden patch They can carry a load thirty times their weight And build a mound that is mighty and great Butterflies – Lepidoptera These angelic creatures with iridescent wings Of overlapping scales in patterns and rings From egg to caterpillar its, first life stages And then to chrysalis where it rests and ages To emerge one day so transformed So utterly beautiful, so perfectly formed To flutter by in colorful flight And onto a flower, there alight