"Mark this well..."

tiny tiny eight-legged creature which was on most flowers...maybe a spider maybe a mite

a very odd (to me) occurrence while i was watching these ant manipulate this bug

                                       saw a lot of these munch on the plants

                                             these tiny ants seemed to avoid the sun and stayed mainly in the shade

                                i thought these winged ant were headed out but they all went back into the ant-hole

 this tiny spider like creature was running along the sand and suddenly stopped and climbed up a hidden silk thread to disappear...

 this spider was on a flower and barely visible...due to "edge diffusion (thanks to lindsay nikole)

the oddest thing i saw was when these ants seemed to be struggling in vain with this bug at the entrance of their ant-hole and they slowing managed to get it out and an inch or so from the entrance when suddenly they maneuvered it slightly and rapidly dragged it back into the hole out of sight...i was stunned by what appeared to me to be a "thoughtful" appraisal of the geometry and logistics of this task and acted accordingly...

i watched some very good youtube recently..."The forgotten voyage" alfred russell wallace  and his discovery of evolution by natural selection (1hour:12 minutes) excellent 

i would like to say something about mr milo rossi and ms nikole and their use of "profanity" in their presentations...i personally view this more as "exclamation" points than any attempt to curse...sometimes rossi does actually specifically curse someone or something...but both of these presenters have so much erudition and factual material in their well though out work that the curse words are hardly a detriment...BUT...if you want presentation with erudition and no profanity i highly recommend that you watch "firing line" interviews with germaine greer PhD (1973) or "the limits of journalistic investigation" with woodward and bernstein...outstanding examples of thought discourse.

"Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of men of thought." Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)