A small bug, a Rice ear bug or a Pod-sucking bug according to Google, survives in the garden often unnoticed! They are plant feeders using their piercing mouth parts to feed on fruits, vegetables and seeds.
They can cause some stippling or our cosmetic damage on fruits and is considered only as a minor pest. The multiple scarred marks on the cashew fruit above suggests that this bug might have been feeding on the fruit .
The strand of web between the two flowers above is another indication of how Spiders use the plants to make their wet to trap insects to feed on them.
The hospitality of plants towards insects of all sorts, including towards those caterpillars who eat away leaves or petals and damage the plants, is the order in nature! The higher species feed the lower species.
This is a pointer to understand human behaviour! What dominates the human instinct is caring for others. But there are exceptions of exploiting those who are less able to benefit those who are in a dominating role.
I read today in the news paper that a forest department is arranging for water basins in the regions, where ponds and lakes are drying up due to summer heat for the benefit of birds.
We do not harvest the guava and papaya fruits from the tress in our front garden for birds to feed on them! We learned this practice from bird lovers who make their garden bird friendly!
The Magpie robins resident in our garden start their bird calls around 5 am in the morning! The silence of the morning when they are not around is a strange experience! I noticed this Magpie robin this morning, perched on the coconut palm facing our cottage engaged in tuneful long bird calls .
A bug or a bird has a place in the garden!
Why deny Palestinians a place of their own! That is a question that does not leave me!
M.C.Mathew( text and photo)
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