Signs of Summer

 

Someone F knew years ago described his progress across the logging slash on a forestry block they were working on as being an 'ant on a shag-pile carpet'.  That lady bird possibly has the same feeling.

Look at all those sunflower buds...

BOING

It kept going around the wire trying to hide from us..


Have you ever seen 'Bugs Life'?  Aren't these the Bad Guys?  He sure scared F when he pinged out from between the pots of chilli seedlings.



Speaking of Boing - do any of your remember Zebedee?

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  1. Cathy31 May 2021 at 06:31

    A cicada is certainly a sign of summer, here at least. You can’t see them but boy can you hear them. It’s fun hearing them stop and start as you walk over the grass
    But where is the ground yours came up from?
    Does it disturb your sleep Tigger with all the noise it makes?
    I believe there is an event happening this year where a species of cicadas will be coming up from the deep after being there for a long long time

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    1. Tigger's Mum31 May 2021 at 09:24

      Ours are in the trees rather than in the grass (we think they can fly too - we have had them on the balcony before). We've heard about those long-cycle cicadas - so this is the year? We must go look that up.

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  2. Yamini MacLean31 May 2021 at 08:44

    Hari OM
    Well, that is not a cicada - it is an Egyptian Locust (or grasshopper if you prefer). And YES! Zebedeeeeeeee - one of my childhood faves.

    Loved that analogy of shagpile for the forested ground - I look at lots of that from the Hutch's window. I am a little jelly green that you have so many sunflowers - are these on your balcony, beneath your satellite, Mr T? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx

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    1. Tigger's Mum31 May 2021 at 10:47

      Ahhhh so it is one of the bad guys from Bugs Life. It has even got creepy eyes. Someone put sunflower seeds in the little garden in public ground, and fortunately they are the kind that don't grow massively tall, and have lots of flowers (which is just as well because some generous person decided none of the rest of us needed to enjoy the apical flower on each, but at least we have been left with all the ones on the side shoots). Fz & Pz Mr T PS - You look out on forestry?

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    2. Yamini MacLean1 June 2021 at 13:06

      Hari om
      The hills to one side (including tracts of forestry) and the Clyde estuary to the other (shipping!). Often seen in my photos from the Hutch's window. Yxx

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  3. The bike shed31 May 2021 at 12:04

    Love bugs of almost any sort - moths and butterflies especially but crickets, dragonflies, and beetles too.. and wasps and bees.. it goes on. Saw some small copper's on the coast path yesterday - a flash of brilliance; a sign of spring.

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    1. Tigger's Mum31 May 2021 at 15:58

      Apparently cockchaffers are appearing in huge numbers this year. Mr B (who is not an etymologist) had to do some research on what he described as the 'chinook helicopter' he caught flying around his room when he got home last week. We've got a moth for you - will post it later in the week.

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  4. MadSnapper31 May 2021 at 19:36

    grasshoppers freak me out if they light on me, i know they don't bite or sting but they buzz and wriggle and i don't want to touch them.. sunflowers are my favorite flowers

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  5. Amy2 June 2021 at 04:05

    I haven't seen grasshoppers that big, one thing we get alot of here is praying mantis though but I don't mind them.

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