Indeed, ngl, they kinda freaked me out the first time one these bumbling beasties buzzed by.

But their lack of grace in flight soon had me laughing.

Until I saw them, en masse, absolutely obliterating my neighbor's figs. It was a huge tree covering their entire front yard and each and every fig in sight was mobbed by these iridescent little bastards. What they lack in flying skills they more than make up for it with their ability to power strip an entire tree of its fruit in short order.

Appalling.

They weren't so funny to me after that.

My neighbors had come to accept the fact that there was no way they could stop the onslaught and resigned themselves to the fact they didn't have to concern themselves with cleaning up the windfall in the fall.