
This bird is making lacework of my sunflowers' leaves. I don't think it is eating the leaves, I think it is eating insects on the leaves. But the insects don't seem to be making the holes. I have stealthily observed the birds and I have seen their tiny beaks rip right through the succulent green flesh. So we have four lives here: mine, which, as interested observer and Tender of the Garden, has very little to lose, then the sunflower which is ten feet tall and a thing of beauty who, in the fullness of time will provide sustenance for many a winter creature, then there is the bird who needs instant nutriment and is finding it, enabling it to raise a family and survive, (I think it is a Western Flycatcher), and then there is the insect, that black thing below the main vein on the leaf. The insect must be getting something from the sunflower. Maybe it plays its part in the destruction of the leaf. I won't interfere. My garden is free range for all. After all I don't depend on it.
EXCEPTION!!! I bought a tomatillo plant and it came from the store infested with bugs and they are killing it! I go out each morning and unrepentantly murder the bugs, but it is hopeless.
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