Petra van Cronenburg<p>1/2 In our <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a>, visitors are often surprised when I show them our housemates, err, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a> mates. 😁<br>These <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firebugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firebugs</span></a> are also visitors, enjoying some warm stones. Normally, they live on the lime trees at the church beside the museum.<br>Firebugs feed on fallen lime seeds (and seeds of some other plants) and dead insects. They are no pest.<br>They communicate and gather with the help of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pheromones</span></a>. Loving heat, they can </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/naturepark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturepark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VosgesDuNord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VosgesDuNord</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lichenSubscribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lichenSubscribe</span></a></p>