Tag: june bugs

  • June Bugs, Harbingers of Summer

    June Bugs, Harbingers of Summer

    by M. Kathy Raines June bugs make my heart sing. Sheathed in glossy caramel shells, they zip about within swaths of springtime porch light—with some hapless beetles smashing into bulbs and landing sprawling, legs a-wriggle, onto concrete.  To schoolchildren, they are happy harbingers of summer. Groundskeepers and farmers, though, do not share this joy. While…