I’ve decided that occasional posts on nature are in keeping with the tone and spirit of this site.

This would be a great name for a mobster.  On the porch the other day I saw a green thing, very green, fly by and land in a bucket of water.

He/it seemed comfortable swimming around.  I watched him for a while before gently scooping him out on blade of a grass whip.

The six-spotted green tiger beetle in the vernacular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicindela_sexguttata.