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Animals
I wonder whether it's not a positive duty to spend time in nature, to appreciate our tiny interactions with the wild things around us. I've never seen one of the hummingbirds who visit our jewelweed perch before this summer; this summer I've seen one perching and holding eye contact often. I've had neighborly conversations with white-faced hornets and been surprised by the rudeness of a Wood Nymph--a little brown butterfly, a composter, who was apparently just about to feast on some moldy fruit in the trash barrel when, to his eyes, a great big ugly human came out and set fire to it. He slammed his full weight, a gram or two, into my head. When you're a rather small butterfly that sort of display of bad temper is cute.
Unharmed by his bravado performance, the disappointed butterfly made a few circles around the trash barrel, then noticed some polluted water in the road and went off to make the best of what he had.
Blogger W.R. Pratt had the unusual luck to spot a generational overlap among monarch butterflies Usually the adults move on before the caterpillars hatch, but in this case, we have evidence, a new butterfly fluttered by in time to meet a well-grown caterpillar.
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