#insect life

[uschi-the-listener]

June Bugs

They’re round and brown

Like amber

Shooter marble size

and dead or dying

I have never seen one out in the wild,

doing bug things

playing a bug song

or a bug game.

I only see them dead or capsized

on the patio, tiny legs

pitifully waving or done waving

in the air.

You turn them over and they walk a step

and roll over again

wave feebly

and die.

Surely they must have

a life

where they

play

eat

love

grow up

have a little

bug society

a bug scout troop

bug songs

bug rodeos

But I only see them in

their final

sad moments.

I am sorry and I want to save them.

I never saw one happily

pursuing bug interests.

It’s June

and they’re dying again.

All over the patio.

One day there were none,

not in the trees

or marching down the sidewalk

or rustling in the garden

Just showing up

to flip over

and die.

I wish I had seen them

at the bug prom.

#June#bugs#what do they do before they show up and die on my patio?#I hope they go camping and the whole bug scout troop sits around the fire roasting gnats on toothpicks and singing bug scout songs.

[jean-luc-thiccard]

I love buttyflies!

[deleteyurichr]

Wearing socks and rubbing my feet together like a very conspiring fly

[southernimages]

Flower Wasp species, West Beach, full story

[nocrastico]

Me and my mandibles that I use for eating #mymandibles

[missedmilemarkers]

[cognitivejustice]

Spiders and frogs return to cotton farms as industry cleans up its act

Once devoid of insect life, Australian cotton paddocks are now teeming with spiders and other animals as the cotton industry moves further a

That is because farmers would spray insecticides multiple times a season to kill heliothis, or cotton bollworm, which is the crop's major yield-reducing pest.

Now the thousands of white bolls at his farm at Cecil Plains, 80 kilometres west of Toowoomba, are swarming with spiders of many sizes and colours and keeping other damaging insects in check.

'Frogs all over the place'

"We knew how the very dark days of cotton growing looked like, with up to 20 insecticide sprays per season," Mr Roellgen said.

Last year, for the first time, he did not apply any insecticides on his cotton.

"We have green tree frogs all over the place now, around the sheds and houses, which we never, ever used to have in the past, and I firmly believe that that is a secondary impact of having more insects around and having less pesticides in the environment," Mr Roellgen said.

The industry's progress in this area and other others, including water use have been revealed in the latest independent review of the sector's environmental performance.

"As the years have gone on I think we can really be proud of the advancements we've made, [but there are] still some areas that we need to tighten up."

[veryslowreader]

Insect Life by John Henry Comstock

The House with a Clock in Its Walls