Did you know that all the ants we see are females? Not only that, they are sisters!!
Would you like to be courted by someone who first offers you a delicious gourmet meal, then an extravagant wedding and THEN a beautiful home in which to raise a family? Then go find yourself a dung beetle!
How about standing above a termite mound and knowing that more than 2/3 of it is below ground and that down there, termites have air conditioning and water reservoirs?
Or... how about that wasp that hunts a spider and paralyses it. Then it digs a hole and puts the alive but immobile spider into it. Then it lays its eggs on top of the spider and then - beware oh the squimish - the wasp larvae hatch and - well - EAT the alive but paralysed spider bit by bit until it dies...
Alfred Hitchcock and Dario Argento must have been entomologists!
Our bug walks with Dino Martins this past weekend at the Suyian Yoga on Safari and Lifeshop Discovery Retreat were absolutely fascinating. Add to that a most heart racing display of elephant mating, observed from our lunch table under the Acacia tree and a leopard rasping just beside our spot for yoga on the rocks and yoga under a rainbow and we all must say that the recent weekend in Laikipia was a perfect combination of serenity, excitement and, good fun.
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