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season: midsummer
section: what is crawling
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- cicadas, loud enough to drown out thought. they are harmless.
- japanese beetles at their worst. the roses suffer most.
- mosquitoes relentless. long sleeves at dusk or pay for it.
- dragonflies over the garden, eating hundreds of mosquitoes a day. allies.
- the yellow garden spider, huge and beautiful, writing zigzags in her web.
- stink bugs arriving. they want your tomatoes. they will get some.