varroa
from complete opposites

My motivation to write these chronicles stems from the feeling of having come to a place
where everything is almost completely the opposite to what I am used to in Australia. But
one creature that appeared on the snow-covered sward outside the service station just
round the corner from our apartment is all too common back home: the pestilent
European import, rabbitus ubiquitous. Well, as a matter of fact, there are no rabbits in
Australian suburbia unless they be kept under lock and hutch as pets, but in this part of
suburbia they are apparently a menace in the opinion of the locals. But strangely, the
sight of a lone rabbit running from us between service station and roadway, no doubt
attracted by the patches of frozen grass exposed just there, made me strangely
sympathetic. And so also my feeling when I looked out of the window the following day
to see a small rounded form on the ground nibbling at the bare sticks of some shrubs
behind the shed there, surrounded by a pattern of tiny indentations in the snow,
the tracery of her path to find food.

varroa from complete opposites

varroa
from complete opposites