A nature conservation blog about the fauna and flora of Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Lower Stour Valley, Worcestershire, England.
A nature conservation blog about the fauna and flora of Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Lower Stour Valley, Worcestershire, England.
Perhaps the way to look at it, Sarah, is that all animals are here to consume the world’s resources; it’s the circle of life.
If I cut a willow tree to ground level this year, next year it will be a 2 metre high bush. Even though a tree or bush might be devastated or killed one year, it will have produced many seeds to take advantage of the light and space made when a tree falls. As a new tree grows, the fallen tree is returning to the soil to nourish its offspring, and provides food and shelter for a wide range of grubs, beetles, insects, birds, larger animals and plants. We all benefit from that fallen tree.
The sawfly is doing what we are all hard-wired to do: survive long enough to pass on our genes.
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I have a real problem with sawflies on my roses!! Can’t imagine how much damage they could do to a tree 😦
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Perhaps the way to look at it, Sarah, is that all animals are here to consume the world’s resources; it’s the circle of life.
If I cut a willow tree to ground level this year, next year it will be a 2 metre high bush. Even though a tree or bush might be devastated or killed one year, it will have produced many seeds to take advantage of the light and space made when a tree falls. As a new tree grows, the fallen tree is returning to the soil to nourish its offspring, and provides food and shelter for a wide range of grubs, beetles, insects, birds, larger animals and plants. We all benefit from that fallen tree.
The sawfly is doing what we are all hard-wired to do: survive long enough to pass on our genes.
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