Small piles of dirt of various construction arise in large numbers around the garden and, if required, a judicious swipe of the boot generally levels them out. Sometimes the swipe yields something I don't really want to see. Bull ants, especially the nocturnal black ones, are one of the few critters I don't enjoy having around the block. Their superb eyesight (they will chase you) and ability to hang on with those jaws (designed for chomping through wood) while delivering a very painful and venomous sting, make them something to be avoided, if possible. Also carrying a sting - but much less irritable - the honey bees have found a drink they like in a bucket of wood-chips that filled with water over winter. Here they are on a nectar exchange - bees pass nectar from one to the other to add enzymes and break down the complex sugars - around 100 times! Thank you to Amazing Bees for providing me with some information.
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Marion Campbell
11/10/2019 11:27:41 pm
Fabulous insights: exquisite studies of the worker bee. I had no idea of that serial salivation for enzyme enrichment... Thank you, 20 acre blogger!
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