Natures Balance.

A Balancing menagerie.

Beetle mania.

The light outside the toilets attract the Black Beetles, they fly too close, crash into it and fall to the ground stunned. The Green-tree Frogs sit waiting for the beetles. As soon as the beetle recovers and moves the frog sees the movement. In an instant the beetle disappears, the end of the frog’s tongue is the end of the beetle.

I witnessed this with the frogs, beetles and Green Tree Snakes in action at Bunderbreg Qld. .

Australia Christmas beetle.

Snakes are plentiful, in the garden by the toilet, they feed on the frogs. This is nature’s way of keeping things in balance. The snakes eat the frogs, the frogs eat the beetles, and the beetles eat the garden. We need this balance as deprived of plants we would perish.

It is not easy being green.

Everything is interdependent if one creature dies out this has an effect on the whole chain of balance. This is only one simple example of nature’s way of keeping things in balance. There are complex connections only a botanist or scientist studying the food chains in nature would be aware of.

The Green Tree Frog .

Man has created many problems by interfering with natures balance. Rabbits, foxes, cats, Prickly-pear, Cane Toads even Honey Bees and many more invasive pests have been introduced into Australia.

Often in Queensland toilet bowls.

Everything has been tried to eradicate rabbits, a virus causing Myxomatosis, a very inhumane way of killing them, had some success, the longest fence in the world, 1,833 km,1,139 miles, has been built to contain them, rabbits are still a pest.

He does not look wild.

Prickly pear invaded 40,000 square km of farm land till a moth was imported from South America its lava ate the Prickly pear. This is claimed to be a success in biological pest control. Drugs cure illness but have side effects and there are side effects from biological cures also.

Carpet Snake actually a python and this one is not real.

The introduction of the Cane toad brought in to get rid of a beetle that was a problem to the sugar cane industry. It has spread from Queensland to Western Australia it is estimated it migrates at the rate of 140 km per year. Its poison kills any animal that eats it and it competes with native wild life for food. This has causing a decline in the numbers of native creatures.

The Honey Bee.

How could a Honey bee affect our environment?  Many native flowers can only be pollinated by native bees and insects. The flowers are shaped to allow only special insects to spread their pollen to other flowers. Honey bees are not capable of spreading and fertilizing these flowers. The Honey bees swarm and inhabit hollows in trees, depriving the native species of a home.

Another colourful beetle I saw in west Australia.

Natures balance is far more complex than most people realize. In physics there is no action without a reaction. In nature there is no action without repercussions. These are laws man must heed or suffer the consequences. Nature is infinite, man is mortal we either live in harmony with nature or continue to fight her and it is obvious to anyone, that is not blinded by greed, who will win.

The Koala is in danger because of auburn sprawl.

Man is like the beetle eating up natures green garden, but man destroys any controlling force. Our population explosion is like a cancer on our island planet. The laws of nature cannot be altered without adverse side effects. If natures balance is disturbed in any way nature in its infinite time will restore the balance.

While both these species are multiplying like crazy.

Do not support wasteful ways and buy only what you need, recycle things. Live peacefully, war is wasteful and investing your money in armaments of destruction is as suicidal as smoking. Nature cannot be destroyed; it changes form, as water freezes or turns to steam. The climate heating up will not destroy any thing it will only alter things. Beatles, frogs and snakes, along with man will change, breaking down into compost for other lower forms of life to feed on. One way or another everything must change. It is mans unavoidable fate so let us do our best to prolong this wonderful life as long as possible.  Man has no answer other than going with the flow of nature to the best of his ability. We cannot fight to put it right, we can only do our own individual best.

An empty case.

 

 

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