For several years there has been a death of largemouth bass in a particular North Pond in New England........... Now they’ve returned..Why? Because there are more spiders in this pond than could be remembered in years past.............More spiders means many, many bugs in the air, and that means that a particular North Pond fish population is being treated to a smorgasbord of delicious bug larvae................ The more bugs, the more fish there are...........Remember, nothing exists in isolation..........If we want the most vivid and picturesque of natures design, then we must learn to love all that has been placed on our beautiful planet.....................“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?".......... "If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not"........... If the biota, in the course of eons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts?".............. "To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.” ― Aldo Leopold, Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold

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The Spiders Were Biting

A sign that the fishing at North Pond 

was robust this summer