My Summer Buffet

It's too hot to be outside much past 8am.  The soil is too warm to nurture most seeds.  Our big rain helped the thought-to-be-dead trees, but couldn't bring the sunflowers to life again.  I removed the dangling dead leaves so the garden doesn't look too raggedy, but I'm leaving the sunflowers to feed the birds before I cut them off and bring them to the school garden.

The green leaves are being nibbled around the edges.  If you don't like pictures of bugs, stop scrolling after the zinnias with the arrow below.

I walked past with my snips, looked down, and jumped.  What the f*** is that pink thing??

By the time I got the camera the sun had shifted so he looks pale if not white, but rest assured this beastie was light pink and hungry.

Need a closer view?  You can see him eating away at those juicy leaves.

AI failed to enlighten me.  It may be an albino grasshopper.  I'm pretty sure it's not an exoskeleton since the thing was chewing away,  a pretty obvious indication that he's still using his exoskeleton to get around the veins.  Zinnias must have very delicious xylem and phloem;  he's chewed near the stem and at the meristematic tissue at the edges of the leaves.  

I'm a little creeped out after looking at all those bugs that might be mine.  Come back tomorrow for, perhaps, something more pithy.