Teeming!

Empty roads, empty paths,  empty beaches, empty town (so I hear, haven't been there) but  when I stuck my face  into  a clump of ivy-leaved toadflax I was amazed to find it as busy as a Saturday night in Soho. 

These are hairy shieldbugs (no, I can't see the hairs either). There are three in this picture but the whole plant and all the others were alive with them,  just emerged  from hibernation with a huge appetite for food and sex. (Another image in extra.)

We're hoping here in Pembrokeshire that it won't be teeming over this coming Easter weekend.  Irate posts on social media report second home owners and  hopeful holiday makers using secret Facebook  messages to share directions on how to slip into Wales  via back lanes, unseen by the police who are parked up major  road junctions in order to turn them back. Local people have been urged to report the presence of  suspected outsiders.

Normally this would be the start of the holiday season and  visitors would be welcomed with open arms and plates of Welsh cakes.

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Update on my March 26th Blip. Fred was wrong, it seems cats may catch Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/cat-lovers-crash-national-vets-website-after-coronavirus-fears