There are good bugs and bad bugs.
My garden is home to them all. I've spotted cucumber beetles, lady bugs, three kinds of bees, two kinds of wasps, several varieties of weird looking flies, roaches in the compost, fireflies, and some giant red thing with wings I may never identify.
Worst of all, though, are the squash-killers. I'm not sure if they're stink bugs, leaf-footed bugs or squash bugs. All I know is that they suck the life out of all the vegetables in my garden and lay their eggs on the leaves of cucumbers, zucchinis and pretty much any variety of squash-type vegetables.
I do my best to scrape the eggs I find off of their perches, but this afternoon, I found hatchlings. Well, they lived up to the name squash bugs after I found them. Hopefully, their corpses will deter any new arrivals.
Ever vigilant.
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