Don't live on the East Coast?

[Kali]

25. not sure what they are, kind of thought they might be some kind of Japanese Beetle???

I reverted to childhood nomenclature and called them yellow gold bugs (what we called gold bugs are what most call June bugs, but we called the big irridescent green beetles that fly in July, June bugs - how is that for scientific?) these swarmed like that for less than a week and then disappeared. only about three nights did they cover everything in the area under the porch light like that.

how big are ground hogs? we have rock squirrels and ground squirrels that tunnel and can ruin buildings. Snakes will start following them in and take care of the problem, unfortunately for us they are often rattlers and I prefer to NOT have them around the headquarters.

argh I was trying to remember what last year's thing was and almost forgot - grasshoppers. stripped everything, even ate the leaves off my lime and olive trees!

here is a peach pit left on the little tree - they ate 5 of them, stripped all the leaves and most of the bark. I thought it died, but it has put out a few new shoots of leaves.