The War between the Rose and the Aphids (2017) Resim Edwin Loftus tarafından

A Rose bush displays its healthy, full blossoms and sharp thorns to ward off an attack of green Aphids in spirit form as armed warrior women.
All summer they have battled and the Rose, using chemical warfare has held the ravaging Aphids at bay. But now, summer is waning and the food supplies of the Rose are diminished as it has used them to grow and mature and put forth the blooms that would attract its pollinators. The Aphids' first few offensives fell to attacks by the Roses' allies, a hatching of Ladybug larva that slew the Aphids by the hundreds. The adult beetles were little less threat when they swarmed to Rose leaving behind the dry and lifeless husks of hundreds more Aphid warriors.
The Aphids had their allies too. Fast and powerful Ants that carried them to their prey and later took their reward by harvesting the excess sugary 'honeydew' the Aphids excreted. That 'honeydew' is the Aphids' chemical weapon in this struggle. It's residues fed funguses that attacked the Roses system and weakened its ability to resist. Soon, the fighting season will end as cooler damper weather strengthens the mildew fungus and the Rose begins loosing its ability to fight back. The Ladybug allies retreat before the coming of winter, but so do the Ants, returning to their sheltered colonies.
The Rose grows weak with less sun and lower temperatures. It sheds its damaged leaves and pulls back supplies from its weaker stems, and as temperatures continue to drop a sort of peace falls over the garden again. In the soil, for a while, new nourishment is released from the bi-products of carbon consuming micro-organisms, only to be dissolved and washed away in the deluge of water flowing through the soil. Starvation sets in and creatures die my the millions and few organisms can withstand the cold that creeps between and into the grains of sand and clay that form the foundation of this world.
Spring will come and with it the sunlight and its warmth. Then plants like the Rose will come to life and begin their desperate race to outgrow their neighbors, to feed and reproduce and continue the heritage of their kind. Ants and Aphids, Ladybugs and Bees will awaken and the struggle to live will resume again.

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