Nature is Amazing!

[Nancy]

OK, Here's my observation for the day.

I was cleaning some areas in the yard, and pulled up a wet board to throw away. Underneath, there were about a thousand or more tiny white ant eggs. The adult ants were frantic and were already carrying some of the eggs down the ant hill to safety before I got the board all the way up. I went back about 15 minutes later, and all of the eggs were carried to safety.

I am amazed at how efficient these little ants are.

Everything alive has a strong will to live!

 

[Bina]

I guess it's only us humans who take everything for granted and loaf around too much. LOL

 

[hensylee]

THE OTHER day some ants had detected something on our concrete floor porch. It was something they finally found that they wanted. Suddenly a group surrounded whatever it was and they had carried it off into the yard in moments. Amazing nature

 

[Marguerite53]

That is amazing! Well, if we don't start acting like the bugs, they may take our planet from us! We went to see the new Disney movie, WALL.E and boy, it's so full of gloom for nature on our planet. Very interesting to see who WALL.E's best friend is!! (the only bug known to survive everything...can you guess?)

Anyway, quite a feat for little ants. When you mentioned all the numbers, I thought of this quite fortuitous photo I managed to capture of this mother and her 12 youngsters. How did she manage to keep tabs on them all?? This spring we had a robin's nest of 3 and one got booted out....very dead on the deck. The second one flopped out and hopped over to the edge of the (2nd story) deck and pondered flying off for so long that I never saw what happened and wouldn't let my husband mow the lawn below until he had raked through every blade of grass even close to where the birdie might have dropped. So one of 3 known to survive from that nest. I think the bugs are gonna outlast the birds.

I've shared this photo before, it's from 2004!

Marguerite

 

[Susan BAV]

I love the picture Marguerite! We were visiting across country last week and in a busy suburb of a large city, traffic came to a complete stop as a large flock of wild geese slowly waddled and mosied across a major intersection! I wish I could have gotten a picture of it! They stopped traffic from all directions.

 

[AgilityDog]

I guess the hummingbird mint I planted on the pond wall really works! DH spotted this little gal this evening, and sent me in for the camera.

 

[Nancy]

I was visiting my daughter in Tampa, Florida, and we were driving down a street and there was a sign that said "Peacock Crossing", and there was a peacock by the side of the road. My daughter told me that they are wild there and protected and very territorial when mating. She said that one time a bunch of them were on the Little League field and the game had to be stopped because they wouldn't get out of the way. It was mating season.

 

[Ross]

Hopefully those weren't little red ants!

There is a farm not to far away from me that has Peacocks. Really screwed me up on the way to the Cardiologists one day. Driving down the road and there stands this male peacock all fanned out on the side of the road. This is something you don't see in Ohio! I think the Doc thought about testing me for drugs when I told him about it.

 

[Susan BAV]

Some of our friends have a few peacocks which roost on their roof next to a chimney (quite messy down the side of their house); and out here it's also very common to find large families of peacocks in large avocado groves. I suppose they keep the rodents down or something but they're also so pleasant to watch. One of our neighbors across a small valley has one that I've never seen and I only know about it because I hear it calling certain times of the year; it was calling early this morning.

Some other friends of mine feed the local wild quail. That's a beautiful thing too, to hear and see the groups of timid quail coming out from the wild brush to gobble their cracked corn.