desert pollination

 

carpenter bees in the morning

honey bees in the afternoon

creosote bush doesn’t seem to care

 

worlds in an acorn

 

inside the shell and under the cap lives the hint of an oak tree

or sometimes weevils grazing on the soft insides

and sometimes an entire colony of tiny ants

 

cicada

 

fight for life

cicada struggling with a wasp

stands no chance

 

(by julia mlynarek)

 

keystone species

 

what would happen to earth

if all the ants

just . . . stopped