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. .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A good message for us to hear.
Thank you for your kind feed-back.
“Nature cannot be destroyed; it changes form”………
Music to me ears Jack. Man in his arrogance has thought himself above the Laws of Nature, meddling and upsetting the balance which Nature has finely tuned over the Millennia..
Your post so beautifully illustrates this fine balance of Natures understanding that we are all interwoven together, one species supporting another each relying upon another for survival and how our plant and insect worlds interact so perfectly…
Man’s interferences are the causes of many imbalances around the world, which have upset the eco balance of natures natural rhythms which has thrown species to become extinct and shown how systems decay as the Forests are cut down their roots no longer hold the land solid reducing many mountain sides to slide in mud as the seasonal rains run through causing flood damage as Native tribes in many of these lands lose their homes and lives…
Like your other posting Jack, when you said we reap what we sow.. So too are we now reaping in our environment that which man has sown… There is always a reaction to an action… And we are seeing it now .. For we Humans have caused the greatest imbalance thinking he knows best…
Leave nature alone and she will recover.. yes like you said it will change.. All things are in motion .. ALL things change, we need to adapt and go with the flow instead of forcing nature and trying to alter her structure with GMO crops etc…
Nature has been here since the dawning of creation……. And can well manage without the help of Mankind… And Nature too will rebalance our Earth and if that means without Man, then Nature will dispose of his ways… of that I have no doubts…
GREAT post Jack and loved the photos too ..
Sue
You understand exactly as I do. I hope others can follow what I am writing. Enjoy your garden it is such a pleasure to be back on a property watching seeds germinate and sprout.
The fowls are wonderful running free in the orchard. A red hen has become really friendly she follows me around. I could not help but respond I hand feed her grains of corn I take from the seed for the wild birds. Look in on Paulines blog she shows most of our great experiebces. There is still much to enjoy and remember the serenity prayer.