Squatters
The BBB likes to make a nest by tunnelling into dry clay, where it’s sheltered from the elements. Females sleep in the tunnels, males roosting nearby, as a general rule.
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From a hole in the side of the mud brick this fly emerged, staggered, looking fresh as … Could be a youngster, I think.
Whatever their normal behaviours are they are unique and amazing little things, no less than the big ones …
This one, a brother perhaps, stumbled out of the same hole and was promptly entangled in a spiders web just below.
Not the first little creature to find itself trapped by nature of another kind, there’s an ant in there too, and that ball …
A mosquito, looks like, ant below it, one leg stretched to the ground, the ball touching it. Ways to die on earth …
This new born bee got its timing wrong, or I need to reorient the brick. It emerged at sundown instead of sunup, and lost its way. I lent a hand …
I made a mud brick with earth from under the roots of a fallen tree and drilled holes for the blue banded bees to nest in.
It took a while for any to take to it this year but a few did and would roost nearby, not a good year for the bees anyway.
In passing I noticed some unexpected activity and bent to investigate. Flies … spiders and others, no surprise really.
Where there’s space for it, life takes form, form dies, and life goes on.
© Mark Berkery ……. Click on those pictures for a closer look
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