First of all, this is a real story...

I've got a 5 acre field that was purdy grown up mostly in grasses but also an area with these 5 to 6 foot tall weeds so...

... I hooked up the bush-hog to the Kubuta today, took me some bottled water and went to war with that 5 acres... The outer parts is all grass so it cut real nicely but as I made one loop aftre another with each being 5 feet closer to the middle of the field, I noticed that there was a lot more bug activity...

This field has probably as fina an assortment of butterflies, bees, and flying bugs as yer gonna find anywhere and 'bout 3 hours into the job I found myself more and more being swarmed with angry bugs... Even the lovely swallow-tails and monarchs were perturbed>>>

"Like, hey, what am doing to make you all so aggitated?", I thought to myself...

Just then one of them black and white bumble bees hit me square in the forehead... He didn't sting ot bite but, hey, I knew I'd been hit, gol dang it... So during my next lap around the field I looked real close at that weedy patch in the middle and it was lit up with butterfieas of all kinds.. Those samll white ones the usually fliiter in pairs were fliiterin' in groups of 20 'er 30... And those small blackish butterflies with the yellow spots were everywhere flittin' from one weed flower to the next and all kinds of flying stuff was flyin' in and around my face, landing on my arms and so...

...it came to me that what I was doing was takin' away their habitat one lap at a time!!!

Thinking back on some of the scarey movies I saw as a kid where bugs would take over entire cities I figurated that maybe a settlement was in order and so I changed my bash-hoggin patterns to protect that section of weeds that seemd to be where they wanted to make their stand and went about just bush-hoggin' the rest of the field..

Now I know that some folks ain't gonna believe this but soon as I decided that I was going to leave their weed patch intact, they left me alone to finish bush-hoggin' the other parts of the field...

Yes, the same criiters who ahd been buzzin' me for hours just let me be!!!

Wierd... But glad to have it worked out with the bugs tonight... Imagine they are, as well...

Bobert