Toast The Cinnamon Bug

I loved seeing  lots of these cinnamon bugs in the spring on my unmown grass. These were individuals that had overwintered as adults. This is one of the new generation on the ivy flower buds. These are known as scentless plant bugs but actually it is said that they smell of cinnamon. I got quite close to get my shot but didn't get a whiff.

When my great nephew and my sister came here from Pau in France earlier in the year I made a mix of cinnamon and sugar so that we could sprinkle it on buttered squares of bread and toast them over our campfire. We talked of the shooting by boar hunters of Cannelle (Cinnamon) the last female brown bear in the Pyrenees.