"This Week at Hilton Pond" we were pruning a Forsythia thicket when a sharp pain to the hand led to our discovery of a complex set of interrelationships between ants, aphids, and larvae.
For an ultra-close-up photo essay about what we THOUGHT we saw and what was REALLY there, please visit the edition for 1-7 July 2007 at http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek070701.html As always we include a list of all birds banded, plus a nature note or two. We hope you haven't been overwhelmed by our back-to-back-to-back installments over the past several days. We were 'way behind after a difficult spring and are finally caught up. :-) Happy Nature Watching! BILL -- RESEARCH PROGRAM c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net): Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org **********
