And now, a song about summer..
"AAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH!" - Cicada
Cicadas aren't just all, "hey girl, hey," they are an important source of food, especially for birds. They help aerate lawns, improve water filtration into the ground, and add nutrients to the soil as they decompose.
Photo of a prairie cicada by Ashley Riedel/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
flatid planthopper nymph, Singapore. hemipterans (true bugs) like these have mastered the art of covering oneself in weird waxy filaments, which are shed along with their last juvenile molt, revealing a sleek, gossamer-winged adult
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Meet Gnat Bug. Gnat Bug fills a unique niche Nature has: Nature needs a bug which looks like this, and Gnat Bug fills the void perfectly. Thank you, Gnat Bug.