We had some early rain and then some sunshine as a bonus.
Nothing can describe a flower better than some natural water on it.
It often reminds us about the fact that water is life, and that it's absolutely necessary for fauna and flora in nature. On the other side of the coin, it tells us that over watering, such as floods, can swamp the growth and ruin it. So, a balance is needed, and in earlier years we had that balance, but now it was disturbed by the strange new weather patterns.
Be that as it may, the insects do not mind, and they simply adapt to the new conditions.
It is us, the human sapiens that struggle to adapt, as we hear so many moans and groans about the new weather patterns. But then it is said that we are responsible for the changes in the weather, due to our habit of pumping toxic gasses into the atmosphere. Not only that, but we have also invented dangerous pesticides that affect the food that we eat, and the air that we breathe in.
So, let's watch some action in our garden.
I told you that we had an early wet morning.
But the Citrus Swallow-tail butterfly didn't mind.
Then the sunshine arrived, and it was happy days again.
I inspected our granadilla fence, as the new passion flowers are growing in it for its second delivery of granadilla fruits.
That little bug was also inspecting the flowers.
So, I tapped the flower, and the bug wandered off.
And then I saw this bug on another passion flower. Look how its color is almost the same color as the center part of the flower.
Then it turned over and it gave me a chance to grab it.
It opened its wings in my hand and then it flew away.
We have the habit of not killing anything in nature, as it's all a part of the eco system. Sadly, the farmers are importing insects to eat the pests in their vineyards, orchards, and fields. What they didn't count on, is that the insects will not only stay on the farms as they have now started to invade the suburbs creating havoc by eliminating the natural insects of the area. A particular pain is the mass of Yellow-jacket wasps that come from Europe.
Not even to speak of the borer beetles invasives that are destroying our old Oak and London plain trees. A tiny beetle that drills itself into the core of the tree trunks to lay their eggs and then when the larvae are born, they eat the inside of the trunk, causing the tree to die. Oak trees and London trees are not local to South Africa but were brought in from the UK many years ago. To counter this, only indigenous trees may be planted here now, as the beetles don't seem to eat them.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
Thank you kindly for supporting this post.
