June bugs

I love June bugs. There i said it.I know, you probably hate them. I think i might be the only one,(at least the i have met) that likes them. Sure they are huge, slow and get stuck in your hair when you try to use your front door in the evening but i think i can change your mind. This year it seems that the sweet brown babies are everywhere. In entomological terms, they have met their thresh hold. I have heard more times these last few weeks how gross they are, but please take a few moments to hear about a few of their finer points.
#1. June bug, (Phyllophaga) will NOT hurt you. In fact they are big, dumb scaredy cats. They spend most of their day hiding from us. they may be larger than most bugs you meet, but that does not mean we should fear them. the fire ants in my driveway cause way more pain than this silly beetle can. really, they are the puppy dogs of the bug world. helpless and looking for friends.I mean really, should we fear something that is to round to flip itself over?
#2. They give themselves up to feed so many others. Yes, i know, "they eat the roots of my grass". It might be true that they nibble a bit on our beloved outdoor carpet, but i had hundreds in my yard this year and my lawn still looks...well the same as it did. the crab grass i lovingly mow is still growing just as strong as it was last year. My point is that they eat a bit of our grass but they feed thousands of other things like ants, frogs, toads, birds and a bunch of soft furry creatures that we love. I realized how much these behemoth bugs sacrifice when one morning on my sidewalk i found a beetle on its back, legs still helplessly moving but its lower half was gone. Just gone! someone had come by, took a bite and left this poor fellow to deal with it. Now how would that make you feel?
#3.They bring the summer. As the spring warms and then freezes again over and over till you think summer will never get here and you will lose your mind the June bugs show up and we know all is well. they mean summer is here. you hear that helicopter like hum in the air fallowed by the tell tale "smack" sound of them hitting something and you just know that warm weather is on the way.
So in conclusion i just ask one thing, please be kind to the June bug. I'm not asking you to have some in for tea, just don't go out of your way to crunch them. They only hang out for so long and then they will be gone and before we all know it the sun will set on yet another summer.Just think of them as you would the firefly, butterfly or any other welcomed summer guest. they play a roll in your life as part of the food chain and they do it so well. As with all things in life, let us not hate something just because we do not understand it.