A couple weeks ago I realized with a start that it had been months since I'd seen a grasshopper. That seemed especially strange since at certain times of year around here it's hard not to look like Pigpen from the Peanuts in a cloud not of dirt, but of bugs. Since then I've been keeping my eyes out, and finally spotted this little fellow on a prickly pear pad yesterday afternoon. For the sake of the birds and the frogs, let's hope it's just a cyclical dearth.
Stephen says he has all the grasshoppers--but not so many bees.
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I have both--must be doing something right. Although I feel sorry for the grasshoppers--one of my cats is always hunting them. :(
ReplyDeleteWe have plenty of other bugs - cicadas, crickets, wasps, bees. Maybe fewer moths and butterflies than normal.
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