Aphid note
I think we might miss
Aphid Day this year. I saw a few of them on Oct 1, but nowhere near enough to count as the Swarm Day. Summer switched to fall stepwise on Sept 9, which is before the Aphid Bracket, and we haven't had one properly warm day since then.
Weather Bureau predicts somewhat warmer and drier in next couple weeks, so maybe the aphids still have a chance.
Sure enough, they took their chance on
10/17.Labels: Heimatkunde