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Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 05:37 PM Jun 2018

Two days in a row, sweeping teeny, tiny little maple seeds...

That turned out not to be maple seeds.

About a quarter inch in length.

Hundreds, maybe thousands of them in my inner courtyard.

Except, they're not maple seeds.

They are cast-off ant wings.

A little bit of rain and the ants rush to mate and send forth the next generation of queens.

We are literally outnumbered.


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