My dog likes to walk in our neighborhood forested park in the evenings, mostly so she can eat her favorite weed. Normally, the mosquitos drive me crazy there, but today it was gnats. I made the mistake of carelessly taking a deep breath through my nose while walking uphill. And I inhaled approximately 9000 gnats.
This is Spider-Man’s back story, right? Gnat-man doesn’t seem to have the same ring to it.
Since Oregon is missing out on the excitement of this year's periodical #cicada emergence, here is a photo from a couple of years ago of one of our non-periodical cicadas, I think a Putnam's cicada (Platypedia putnami). I was able to locate this handsome fellow in a hazel bush by his occasional clicking call and catch him for a closer look.