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The year of extremes.  this year the bugs have been remarkable and in hopes of slowing down the hatches we mowed close to the house.  Has it worked?  Will a few thousand fewer be noticed?  the other fields are still full of nesting birds and lots of bugs and we continue to have showers and warm.  I suspect we will have bugs with us for awhile.
  

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Aren't we blessed with a healthy ecology?  

Yet instead of being overjoyed at this, we the guests, the newcomers grump.