Not seen that before II

[Pedroski]

Last week we were working on a nice large magnolia tree. We stopped for lunch and, while sitting in the truck, noticed a robin that kept flying over to a flint wall. The wall had a load of ivy on it and there were bees coming to and fro from a hole in the wall. We kept watching this robin - it was flying down to the wall from a tree opposite, and catching bees in mid-air, get them to the ground and stab them in the back before flying off with them. Then it would sit in the tree again , watching, and come and get another. This went on all lunch - the robin must have taken a good 30 or so bees. Has anyone else ever seen this before?

[Bearded Munch]

Not witnessed that one but have heard of it.

[born2trot]

I watched a bumble bee slowly giving up on my path the other day . It looked physically ok which i thought strange . On closer inspection i noticed a neat hole pierced into the back of its skull maybe a mm or two in dia.

Intrigued to find out what caused this a quick search on the net and hey ho the culprit is a ' flower spider ' or crab spider which lurks in the vegetation and waits on its said victim . It injects venom into the back of the skull and digests the brain of its prey . Not seen that before !!

[s.varty]

The animal with the shortest neck in comparisom to its body size is the giraffe, no other animal has to spread its legs to drink, i have seen this on telly, does that count?

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Lunch break?!! I have not stopped for a lunch break since 1995!

 

 

 

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[Pedroski]

Lunch break?!! I have not stopped for a lunch break since 1995!

 

 

 

 

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Only 5 minutes, honest guv