I looked at a couple of stunning insect pictures in a lovely photography book by Jean Paul Ferrero.
Recently I saw a huge flock of white butterflies, but other than that the book made me realise that I see very few insects around now.
When I was a kid in inner Sydney and also the nearby suburbs, we had a good variety of insects including praying mantis, dragonflies, rhinoceros beetles, elephant beetles and, around December/January, an assortment of beautiful multicoloured iridescent Christmas beetles.
Are they still around or have we poisoned them all?
Happy Christmas.
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