August is the Month of Fruit

AUGUST is the month of fruit, of mushrooms, of the last summer heat.

In August you will find many of the same flowers that bloomed in July, and some new ones as well.

There are plenty of mushrooms in August. Not only people like mushrooms. Deer and squirrels are fond of them, too.

It now seems as if the birds have disappeared. They have brought up their young, and many of them have gone to the woods.

In August many of the snakes lay their eggs — from three to eleven. Many snakes give birth to the young either in late August or in September.

You must learn to recognize the snakes of your region, so that you are not afraid of every snake. Not all of them are poisonous.

Instead of the concerts of birds you have now the concerts of insects. The grasshoppers, for example, make music during the day. But you may hear field crickets and tree crickets at any hour of the day or night in any kind of weather.