African Wildlife & Environment Issue 77 FINAL ISSUE

FAUNA, FLORA & WILDLIFE

These principles are well described in our books Bring Nature Back to your Garden and Bring Butterflies Back to your Garden . The last-mentioned could easily have been named Bring Birds Back to your Garden because, where butterflies and their larvae (caterpillars) go, birds will soon follow. But if most gardeners, or even only most birders, followed our example then it would result in a drastic reduction in profit for the poison manufacturers and their vendors. So, they are duty bound to defend their products.We hope that all WESSA supporters will not use any poisons, no matter what the advertisers say! Both the Botha's books are available from The Fauna & Flora PublicationsTrust at https://www. floratrust.co.za/books.html . Or if you enter the titles on Google, you will find various other places where you can order the books. Editor .

Robber flies catch their food in flight and will attack insects much larger than themselves Photograph: P. Vos

Charles & Julia Botha charlesbotha@gmail.com

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