Herb flowers

Herb flowers are always popular with pollinators. I wonder what sort of powerful rongoa they share.
This blue butterfly is drinking Thyme nectar.

Summer chorus

Cicadas sing all day  long here in summer.
They are sap suckers and also tree pruners who damage small branches when they lay there eggs -this damage makes the branches susceptible to snapping in the wind.

They suck sap from plant roots in there nymph stages and then move above ground when they emerge in late spring.

This one is enjoying some corn.