{"id":3598,"date":"2013-08-05T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2013-08-05T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T23:33:36","slug":"summer-of-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3598","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/bugsummer1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/bugsummer2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a buggy summer here.  In late May and early June, we had a huge invasion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/08\/nyregion\/an-invasion-of-17-year-olds-loud-lusty-and-six-legged.html?_r=0\">17-year cicadas<\/a>.  My residence just happens to be dead-center in a 4 or 5 block cicada &#8220;hot-spot&#8221;.  The droning noise was really getting creepy after a while, and all the dead cicadas in the driveway from various stages of their development got rather messy.  I was glad once they finished their business and were safely underground by early July.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve had the usual summertime apartment invaders, including various brown beetles and a stray lightning bug here and there. (And those darn fruit flies that I discussed <a href=\" https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2013\/07\/06\/fruit-fly-wars\/\">on July 6<\/a>; then there was that bug in the zendo <a href=\"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2013\/06\/14\/zen-enlightenm\u2026d-bugs-a-haiku\/\">from June 14<\/a>). But over the past 2 weeks I&#8217;ve seen a small fleet of butterflies tending to the plants out front.  Much nicer than cicadas and beetles, but still kind-of . . . buggy.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, enjoy the shots.  I might actually miss some of these critters on a dark-gray 5 degree morning in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a buggy summer here. In late May and early June, we had a huge invasion of 17-year cicadas. My residence just happens to be dead-center in a 4 or 5 block cicada &#8220;hot-spot&#8221;. The droning noise was really getting creepy after a while, and all the dead cicadas in the driveway from various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}