But I actually have a mosquito story too. It didn’t work out as well as you related.

But anyway, this summer I was walking on a state trail near madison and the mosquitoes were really biting me bad. So I thought about the porkupine spirit and thought, maybe I could call up the “big mosquito” and work somthing out. So I concentrated and got this picture of a big mosquito in my mind. I explained the situation. You know what it said? It said “We have parasites too.”
It showed me its abdomen and there were these two little mite like critters attached on there. It said
“They only live on mosquitoes. What would you have them eat?”

I didn’t know what to say about that. I thought it was a really good point.

So I said to the big mosquito in my mind:
“OK, how about this. If I see you guys first I can swat you and hopefully kill you.
If you can bite me and get away without me noticing you can have my blood.”

The mosquito said that was basically the agreement they have always had.

I think really deeply and hard about death and non-existence, probably something a mosquito or bee has never pondered before.

I send this out and offer a trade. If they leave me alone and do not cause me to suffer, I will not swat them and end their life.

I do often have this conversation with spiders, as well. I permit their webs if they do not bite me.

ANd this relationship works. I never get bitten by insects. Well, rarely.

Black flies are not reasonable creatures, they are ravenous things that must simply be avioded.

Mosquitoes, bees, spiders, fleas, and ticks are all resonable insects, and once you make peace with individuals, you make it collectively.

Animals are just as individual as humans, though, so always be ready to have a conversation, you never know who is listening!

I found this little cabin like shelter on this trail I was hiking on and I interrupted these two porcupines courting each other. They had chewed a hole trough the door and had been hanging out in there. There were lots of droppings around. It was probably their mating season.
I shooed them out with a shovel and swept up all the porky poop and but a rock under the door.

Later when I went outside to get some firewood, I noticed that there were porkupines coming from miles around all congregating at this one spot. It was like a porkupine convention. They move so slow I could see them coming a long was off down the trail. I shooed them all away, one by one.
I decided to spend the night in the shelter. So I set up my sleeping bag and had a roaring fire going and was drifting off to sleep and I began to percieve a large shadowy figure in the corner. It looked like big foot, but I realized it was a large appirition I was seeing of a huge man sized porcupine! I sensed it was some type of guardian spirit of the porcupine coming to me to let me know I had really offended the local porcupines. It didn’t really say anything to me. I just saw it my state between sleeping and being awake.

I got so freaked out I had to leave. But later I reflected on it and felt I had been opened up into a different world, I had never thought of porcupines like that before, like they were their own little tribe of people. It was an amazing experience. I recorded it on tape so I wouldn’t forget.

Maybe I could have made some type of peace offering to the porkies.