Food of Ambush Bugs
Food of Ambush Bugs is a scholarly work, published in 1922 in ''Canadian Field-Naturalist''. The main subjects of the publication include Cerambycidae, Orthoptera, biology, Halyomorpha halys, and computer science. Meant picking something from the water, dabbUng in it, or drinking.We thought there might be a shoal out there in mid-lake that authors were unaware of and made a point of investigating.We found nothing but deep water anjrwhere in the vicinity of the occurrence.My mother and sister reported an exactly similar occurrence about a year later on Crow Lake, a small body of water southwest of here, so it is evidently a habit not strictly confined to the birds of this one particular rookery.I do not remember hearing or reading of this trait of the species elsewhere.