Fire Salamander

Dear grapelovers,

As most of you will know, I neither studied eonology, farming or vine growing. It has always been important for me to occasionally look over the shoulders of my neighbors and colleagues to learn a thing or two from them.

There is this one colleague that I frequently look over the shoulder of. The picture here above represents my lesson of the week. If you look closely, you will see larvae from both Fire Salamanders and Toads. If the availability of food is too tight, they will tend to cannibalism and eat one another. Here my colleague has offered them some dog biscuits (the donut shaped things floating on the water) to distract them from eating each other.

What I really like about this photo, is that there are people among us, that love nature so dearly that they even go to the length of thinking of such things.

Thank you for your continued support and all the best, Hoss