Bugscrolling - what's buzzing/chewing/biting in your neighborhood?

[wtg]

Looks like we're going to have a bad tick season here. We suburbanites never really saw a lot of tick activity in our yards, but they've invaded over the last few years.

We had a bumper crop of cottony maple scale last year and it's back again this year. We're getting the sticky sap spots all over the place now; I left my phone on my potting bench for less than an hour and it the screen got all speckled. The top of the fence is covered in sap; your hand sticks to it if you rest it on the top rail. This joy will be followed by black sooty mold on all the plants under the silver maples that the scale lives on. Oh joy.

Mosquitos are already here, too. I had one drill me in the neck and I got a huge red blotch. Little bastards.

On the positive side, I'm seeing lots of bees!

[Daniel]

Ticks bring disease. I'm sorry.

We have garden variety flies in the kitchen.

It could be the maid who bags and double bags when needed all of the garbage and hauls all of it in push carts to the dumpsters a mile away quit unexpectedly last week.

Good help is hard to find.

I just found a newborn (and I mean probably born about yesterday) garden lizard hiding in a blanket on the porch.

So cute! ️

[CHAS]

Don't see many insects here. Mosquitoes in a wet year. If I see ants or a spider, it is an event. A few butterflies show up. A fly got in the place last year.

[wtg]

@Daniel said:

Ticks bring disease. I'm sorry.

Yes, I've had Lyme and have no desire to repeat the experience. Fortunately the deer tick, which is the one that harbors Lyme bacterium, isn't what will show up in our gardens.