One of the most abundant animals in the world that you have never heard of (this may sound like one of those click catcher phrases on the Internet, but it is not).  In this case we are talking about  (and pictured here) Apallates particeps, collected also in this case by George Foster, one of the few Chloropid specialists in the world.  If you were to stand in a lawn (perhaps not a pesticide laden one) you would be surrounded by, and perhaps standing upon, literally thousands of this species and its kin.  Yet, you would not know that because they are less than 2mm in size and they are not interested in you in any way.  It appears ("appears" is the right word since we really don't have a lot of details) that they might feed on plant blood that oozes from wounds caused by other insects and perhaps may be one of the few things that actually responds positively to the cutting of grass.  On the other side of the coin, this also means that when you mow your grass you also are literally the agent of death for 10's of thousands of creatures.  Now that we told you... can you not un hear (Gramatical side note:  "not un" is what is called a "near" double negative) the despairing cries as you approach with your mower?   Another reason to delawnify and inspect your new found moral dilemma of how it is that you can save Monarchs but then turn to kill untold thousands of Apallates. Shame. Â
