For every one of us…
There are 1.5 billion bugs.
The reality of this started to become more apparent as I spent most of Saturday afternoon, sitting on the ground next to a bush in the front yard. On that single bush, I discovered at least 3 species of spider, 2 species of fly, a grasshopper, a praying mantis, a beetle, a caterpillar, a hornet and a bunch of other stuff I couldn’t even name. And this was one little spiny bush in the yard.. yet all of them flying, buzzing around, chomping away, leaping from leaf to leaf.. and all seemingly disinterested in one another. All focused on their own little tasks and the majority of, not terribly bothered that I was sitting there, a 100mm Macro lens pointed in their faces or my finger generally prodding them into a lighter area of the leaf they held onto, turning them around to face the camera.
I don’t know if it was the first (and only) sunlight of the day that forced them to be so lazy in the presence of a huge, threatening Human being or maybe the humidity has the same lethargic, energy-sapping effect on insects as it does us. Either way, they were a pleasure to work with. Basically, I moved about a metre over the course of an hour.
