Eradication

         I gazed upon my favorite rose this afternoon. The one that's on the top of my rose bush;

the one filled with life, bursting of a soothing yet dark pink color, the one out of the four that actually catches your attention..

My rose was completely harmed from the center to its pedals.



 

         My first question was "Who did this or what did it?!" My roses were fine yesterday.. 

I assumed that it was my little cousin Eddie who was looking at them earlier today. He's really destructive so why wouldn't it have been him? He likes to piss me off so this effect on my rose could have been caused by my little cousin. Then I thought it was earwigs! But I've seen earwigs in my roses before and they never did anything. Why would they suddenly want to eat my rose now? Were they so hungry that they needed to eat half a rose?! My rose!

         Then I did a little research on Earwigs and this is what I found:

http://www.marinrose.org/earwigs.html

This website states that Earwigs could be the cause of a little harm on a rose because they eat roses with their little chewing mouthparts not pinchers.

 

       So it made me wonder;

 10/05/14

      "Do my eyes deceive what was once a beautiful rose? Is it still a rose even if it's harmed and incomplete?
I speak to be heard once more, and once more to be heard by that rose.
I'm a total freak and I would talk to that rose and tell it how beautiful it was. I know, I know. Talking to roses makes me sound like a crazy little turd, but it actually works. Nature can hear you just like the Earth can hear you, just like your surroundings can hear you, just like I can hear myself and just like you're hearing yourself reading this in your thoughts!
         But I forgot to talk to my favorite rose for the past two days, and I talk to my rose everyday. I knew my rose was sad because I didn't talk to her and she loves my voice. She can hear my urges and desires of how much I want her to keep growing. And, since she didn't hear me for 2 days does that mean that she just gave up? Did she give up and tell herself that it's okay for those stupid earwigs to eat her beauty up..?" - My Field Notes

          I came to the conclusion that it was the earwigs after all. The Eradication (complete destruction) they caused my favorite rose. Will my rose ever be beautiful again?