The Last Thing Seen by Many a Bug or Caterpillar

And…For the sake of the photographer’s health, one hopes he got all he needed with a single pass by the chemical-spewing Stearman. The good news for him is that by the time this picture was taken in the 1950s, the crop dusters were no longer using what had proven highly effective in the past: a liquid mixture of lead and arsenic. Seems like a bad idea now, but it didn’t at the time. We humans are like that – we only learn by experience (when does the city put up a stop sign at an unmarked intersection, before a bad car wreck, or after?).

The location is Washington state, the target, apple trees, and the critters and caterpillars that love them.