Friday 25 May 2012

Sampling with 13 ducklings

In one of our gardens we were amazed to find 13 little ducklings and their mom swimming happily in the little garden pond. On our arrival all 13 ducklings came running towards us as they expected to be fed.
Luckily all ducklings soon returned to the pond and we could start our sampling.

But it turned out that we had to compete with the ducklings for pollinators as they took great interest in catching flies and other insect.

2 comments:

  1. Kirsty Robertson25 May 2012 at 15:54

    Fantastic!! Such a lovely picture, shame that they thought the pollinators were so tasty though! :)

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  2. Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, by humans. Most such bees are honey bee life cycle in the genus Apis, but other honey-producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept.

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