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The June hemipterous insect that went after me last weekend looks just like this one .
This spring , my baby , Cyndi , come to visit me from the island where she lives in the South Pacific . While I was at work one day , she planted a garden of tomatoes . Now , four months later , I have bushel of the luscious red fruit .
Today I was alfresco picking some love apple , tossing the overripe I to my chicken and placing the good ones in a purse , and as I bent over the plants with my case late into the leaf , I get wind a loud bombilation . Suddenly , a giant , green green June beetle beetle — which most people call a June hemipterous insect — flew into my face .
Although I ’m an urban farmer , I ’m rather squeamish when it amount to gargantuan bug ( potato bug pall me virtually to the point of pass out ) . When this big , green bombilate thing wing right at me , I screamed like a little girl and run like hell .
I dashed across the patio and did n’t block up until I no longer heard the buzzing . Assuming the shivery creature was gone , I went back to the garden to pick up the tomato plant I dropped in my haste to escape . No sooner did I flex down to pick them up did I learn the loud buzzing again . I count up and the beetle was hovering in front of my face , looking right at me .
I dropped the tomatoes again and ran . But no matter how far I die hard from the tomato garden — which I decide the mallet must be guarding — the hemipteran was nigh behind . It was n’t until I make the back threshold that the beetle flew away .
As I paused to compose myself , I notice that my chickens were all on the lawn , staring at me . The dog , Nigel and Olivia , were also looking at me , stupefy . The horses were ignoring me — they had hay in their affluent — and it would take more than me run from a bug to get them to notice .
humiliate by the aggressiveness of this dirt ball , I went in the house and did an internet hunting for June bugs . I found out that the species where I inhabit , in the Southwest , is called a figeater . I flunk to find anything about these beetle being aggressive and chasing people . All information I found on June bug and tag involved the germ being chased , not humans .
I also discovered that chickens eat June hemipteron . I detect stories about hen pursuing June bugs all over the yard until they catch them . My chickens have no interest in them . It ’s believably because I have bantams ; to them , these bugs look like behemoths .
The moral of the level is that I ’ll have to detect some environmentally safe way to deal with this figeater , who has put down claim to my tomatoes . Either that or go out and get some normal - sized chickens .
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