Our Joint-Legged Neighbors

The insects come back, fewer and fewer, each spring, until...

At first glance, you might shy away from this Locust Borer beetle, given its yellow-jacket markings. Pretty clever, eh?

Insects and the flowers and trees they use for food and shelter are our neighbors, wherever we live. I measure my year by when the first appear, and when I last see them or hear their nocturnal human on a mid-autumn night, soon to come.

In the spirit of laziness, I’ll point you back to a blog post from Sept 20, 2018 where I celebrate and eulogize our six-legged neighbors, in this re-post noting that THIS is the first year in 30 that I have NOT seen a Locust Borer Beetle on the goldenrod.

Lamenting the slippery slope of class INSECTA.