Thursday, May 7
The day after doing the first patio cleanup of the season, I noticed several large anthills. I guess they didn’t like that I got a lot of water in their under-the-patio house.
I asked Cerwin if he still had ant poison. The day after he sprinkled it around the ant hills I went out to see if there were any ants – and noticed a cherry blossom moving across the area. 🙂
Consequently I sat on the patio for the next ten minutes watching a few industrious ants moving cherry blossoms.
It was quite a job for them because it was breezy.
Every now and then the breeze flipped a petal and the ant went with it.
After getting back on his legs, he began moving the petal again.
Another one on its back.
They are so amazing. Sometimes the breeze took an ant and petal a foot or more and it had to retrace his steps to his goal.
What fun to watch these industrious little critters – even though I don’t want them building ant hills on our patio.
That’s amazing. Somewhere in Proverbs doesn’t it say “Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise”? Do you know why they wanted the cherry blossoms? Do they eat them? I’m guessing they’re not decorating their rooms with them.
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I tried finding an answer for the post – on what they would be doing with cherry blossoms, but couldn’t find anything. Maybe there is something sweet they like.
What an odd apparition that must have been! I know that ants are considered to be industrious, but this sheds a whole new light on the reason for that reputation!
It was certainly fun to watch them.
Maybe they were trying to use them to fill up any cracks and keep any more water to get in their ant hills. GOD knows
Hey, that’s a thought. 🙂