Bush Life

     This week, I decided to focus upon the bush that sits right beneath the nest of Roderich and Elizaveta.  It is a large green bush and reminds me of a pine tree as it is very spiny.  It is not a pine shrub though, and I don't know what it it exactly.  I suppose it is rather spiny to keep certain organisms away from its' roots or branches.  It's also rather condensed together and has spaces just big enough to for animals as big as a cat to fit through.
     I know this as my cat, when he escapes, runs right to the bush and hides beneath it.  It gets quite annoying as I can't get my arms to fit through the branches to grab him, and it takes nearly an hour of me running around the bush to finally get him inside.  After I manage to get him, his pelt is littered with little spiky twigs and such.
     The bush is teeming with life. I've never really noticed it with all the times I've had to chase after Spike. I only noticed when we had an English assignment to observe something and make a list of what you noticed.  While doing the assignment, I accidentally fell into the bush and it hurt. I was trying to get my bearings after falling, and once I did, I saw I was covered in spider webs.  Naturally, I didn't like this so started to get them off.  This had me looking down (to see the webs), and I saw hundreds of little ants swarming around the bush carrying small white things (Most likely moving their eggs).
     That wasn't all that lived among the bush.  During my observations that took place later in the evening, I would usually hear crickets or grasshoppers (not entire;y sure which), and once I heard a frog.  The bush gave all these animals life and all the animals gave the others and the bush life.  "Food chains and food webs and/or food networks describe the feeding relationships between species and the biotic community".  This describes the organisms withing the bush and the bush itself.  There is a food chain within the bush, and without the bush, or a certain organism, the life within would collapse.  The bush is the foundation for the life within.

Works Cited

 "Food Chain." ScienceDaily. 1 Dec., 2014. Web. 1 Dec., 2014.