Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay Springwatch
Killed my first cockroach of 2009 last week - was sweeping the path and the little get came out of a weed. Battered him back to hell with the broom.
Also, removed a dead mouse from the garden, having noted with some fury that the bastards are back in my kitchen despite having lined most of the house with wire wool.
Fans of nasty things might wish to know that a wasp was sipping liquid from inside the dead mouse's eye as I packed the little creature off into a carrier bag.
What other signs have we seen that our local fauna and flora are flourishing this spring?
Also, removed a dead mouse from the garden, having noted with some fury that the bastards are back in my kitchen despite having lined most of the house with wire wool.
Fans of nasty things might wish to know that a wasp was sipping liquid from inside the dead mouse's eye as I packed the little creature off into a carrier bag.
What other signs have we seen that our local fauna and flora are flourishing this spring?
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Are you absolutely sure it was a cockroach they only live indoors normally
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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I have found that it is normal after about the third consecutive day of over 25°C degrees for the new generation of queen ants to leave the nest with a swarm of workers.... Leave them alone and they'll be quiet by tomorrow .. Ants are the refuse cleaners of the garden .. I always leave them be..
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If you are suggesting pouring boiling water on an ants nest forget it. The nest is up to a metre below ground.
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As you may have noticed, I'm quite a fan of ants; Bees and wasps as well, come to that. I first got interested in them while living in Munich and found that living together with them, rather than waging a constant war is the better option; for the garden, the environment and for my guilty conscience. I'm intrigued by their 'one for all - all for one' way of living and was amazed watching ants collecting up their dead...
I'm lucky in Berlin in that I have an Ant Store about 15 minutes drive away... where it's possible to get some really interesting colonies 'to keep at home' - I don't do that though, but I find that window shopping is great fun.
Another couple of interesting links:
Today from the BBC Earth News about an Ant Mega Colony as well as this link from March 2009 about 'Ant Teamwork'.
I wouldn't mind betting that ants will still be present on this planet, long after the Human Race has destroyed itself..
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**one small point:
German English rears it's ugly head again.. 'living together' or 'zusammen leben' should have been written 'living alongside one another' ..
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Permalink Reply by Cat on
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I must be a fan of nasty things. The line:
Fans of nasty things might wish to know that a wasp was sipping liquid from inside the dead mouse's eye as I packed the little creature off into a carrier bag.
made me literally laugh out loud. Eww, grim!
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A small bee committed hari kari by impailling itself on my foot, a large mouse jumped out of the larder (there cannot be any holes left in the house not bunged up with steel wool), and I am now an expert on bed bugs; there is a long back story regarding the last one which I wont go into but believe me bed bugs have no redeeming social characteristics, (though interestingly they have some unique biological features when it comes to reproducing, which they do all to readily).
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On a fluffier spring note the tadpoles in my little pond have 'fledged' making it a delicate operation to hang out the washing and I have just found a young toad (if I knew how to upload photos you would have an image here of a young toad looking dozy and contented).
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Permalink Reply by Harringay Birder on
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Ha! I don't know about steel wool, there are so many holes in old Victorian brick walls I think you're wasting your time. Polyfilla, traps, high-pitched whining plugs... for me the best defence ever was a bag of white sliced. They can't breathe, you see..
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