[pbs] crickets #)($%&$$#&*(%!

Jim McKenney jimmckenney at jimmckenney.com
Tue Sep 4 14:42:33 EDT 2007


This morning I was thinking that any day now colchicum should start to
bloom. So I went around the garden checking likely spots - and I had a nasty
surprise. 

Colchicum have been blooming - and crickets have been eating them as fast as
they appear. The only thing left are stubs: eventually these are lifted into
view by the growth of the perianth tube. 

It's been so dry this year we will probably have a bumper crop of crickets.
I still haven't forgotten the undulating black carpet of crickets which
covered the late summer ground in Texas when I was there years ago. 

We have grasshoppers this year, too. 

I'm not happy. 


Jim McKenney
jimmckenney at jimmckenney.com
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where bottle gentians have
started to bloom. 

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