{"id":2016,"date":"2009-06-22T01:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2009-06-22T01:57:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T01:57:12","slug":"baby-toads-deer-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/baby-toads-deer-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Toads &#038; Deer Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-25111.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2017\" title=\"shapeimage_1-25\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-25111-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-25111-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-25111-500x285.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-25111.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a month and a half of comfortable days and and pleasant, sleeping weather nights, Iowa\u2019s normal weather pattern arrived with a vengeance last week. The humidity is oppressive, the temperatures hot all day and only slightly cooler after sunset. Forecasters like to say \u201cThe weather pattern has become active\u201d which is the euphemism they use because they don\u2019t want to start a panic by saying \u201cDarn tootin\u2019 you better have path to the basement clear or a tornado could land you and your house somewhere over the rainbow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With hot, humid weather comes the arrival of my least favorite walking companions, the deer flies. The small, striped flies have a wicked bite. But usually, they get tangled in my hair which is not an easy feat to accomplish considering how little hair I have compared to my bare arms and legs on hot mornings. The flies are exceedingly stupid, unable to extricate themselves from my inch-long hair or make their way to my scalp in a timely fashion. So I spend a considerable amount of each morning walk picking the little critters out of my hair and squashing them. So far, my record is 23 on one walk, something I think our president, my partner in fly extermination, would be proud.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, as I committed insecticide with impunity, a dark spot on the road sprang to life and hopped out of my way. At first I thought it was a beetle, but closer inspection revealed it to be a tiny toad. But every time I got in front of it and tried to take it\u2019s picture, it did an about face and hopped in the opposite direction. Finally, I gave up on capturing it\u2019s smile and put away my camera. Then worried that the next car to drive by would end the toad\u2019s life with a splat, I snuck up behind it, scooped it into my palm and carried it to the side of the road. Before I could bend down, it sprang from my hand, landed on the grass and disappeared. I shrugged, picked a deer fly from my hair and squashed it.<\/p>\n<p>Were the two responses to critters on my road at odds with one another? How could I treat the toad, who could become a deer fly predator, with great compassion and then murder a deer fly? I have no good answer to the question, just a pragmatic suggestion for the deer flies. When they leave me alone, I\u2019ll leave them alone. Otherwise, we\u2019ll be at loggerheads until the baby toad gets big enough to eat my enemies or weather changes, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a long summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a month and a half of comfortable days and and pleasant, sleeping weather nights, Iowa\u2019s normal weather pattern arrived with a vengeance last week. The humidity is oppressive, the temperatures hot all day and only slightly cooler after sunset. 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