THE STARLING FACTOR!
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Time in this year flies,
Returning birds fill the skies…
Starling, red wing,
Both have heard sing,
Robins were a pleasant surprise!
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Brown grass turning green,
Small flocks of starlings I’ve seen…
Foraging for
A few insects more,
Larvae are coming out clean!
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–Jonathan Caswell
THE MUNCHY-CRUNCHY MOSQUITO
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The munchy-crunchy mosquito
Serves as delicious burrito…
To swallows that fly
Their mouths open wide,
Consuming mosquitoes per kilo!
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We here in northern climes
Mosquitoes appear in times…
Of sudden protein
(They’re eaten, we mean)
By birds at nesting time.
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Using every pond and puddle,
Fish find the larvae no trouble…
A few we swat
The rest they got,
Seeing them perched on a bubble.
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Mosquitoes to us are a pain,
To animals, in their food chain…
Too small for us
To make any fuss,
God’s creation has more than one aim!
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–Jonathan Caswell
WHAT GOES WITH MOSQUITOES?
Those doggone, pesky mosquitoes,
Do they fit environmental credoes…
Malaria comes
Because of those bums,
The bloodsuckers drill through a Speedo!
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On the tundra, fifty percent,
Of life–without mosquitoes–will have went…
They make easy food
With a good attitude,
Of major consequence.
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Reindeer migration routes
Affected by mosquito soups…
Avoiding the buzz
Important because
Places need time to recoup.
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Mosquitoes clean dirty water
Then feed fish and bugs as they oughter…
Many birds eat them too,
And “swallow” a few*
On the wing near the surface of water.
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Females go after the blood,
To nourish their eggs in the flood…
Males in the sector
Survive on nectar,
For which pollination is good.
–Jonathan Caswell
* swallows…are one of the several bird types that eat mosquitoes “on the fly”–while flying.
Information for this poem was found at http://www.ehow.com/.
By the Mighty Mumford 