They've returned. They have their scheduled
appearance every summer and adhere to it
faithfully for this is their life's routine.
Nature designed them as she did all that
exists. They are predators though not of their
kind but rather insatiable devourers of types
of vegetation beloved of gardeners. Their
detested presence late this year rendering
hope in the heart of plant-lovers that they may
have gone amiss on their journey idling elsewhere
to wreak their particular havoc, ravaging
precious gardens. But no, there they are starting
out their journey in the forest, nesting in the
crooks of trees, settling on wildflowers as
they fulfill their function in the chain of life
designed by the master gardener herself. They
are admittedly beautiful creatures with their
shiny carapace glinting green and gold in the
sun, but they are nonetheless detestable tiny
hordes of plant-destroying hyenas closing in for
the kill so that even ornamental trees voided of their
summer foliage succumb to their predations.
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