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I grew up in the South Eastern US, and bug and lizard cages were common educational toys. I used to catch grasshoppers, lizards, fireflies, and "June bugs" (Po

by echelon 2mo ago

I grew up in the South Eastern US, and bug and lizard cages were common educational toys. I used to catch grasshoppers, lizards, fireflies, and "June bugs" (Popillia japonica). One summer, there was a particularly bad outbreak of June bugs and if you shook a Japanese maple tree, the entire tree would empty of thousands of them in a dense cloud. Childhood summers were fun.

SoftTalker 2mo ago
I'm pretty convinced that June bugs are the dumbest insects on the planet.
- echelon 2mo ago
  They are so clumsy! They slowly fly and collide into everything. There are so many "smart" insects with highly evolved predator avoidance. These are not those insects.