I saw a dead arboreal salamander in the ivy a couple of mornings ago, not far from where I found the dead bee. I didn't even know there were salamanders in the ivy.
I wish I could have seen it alive.
I took another look at the carcass yesterday, and I saw a three-band garden slug and several terrestrial leeches feeding on it.
Today I found it covered in ants, its forelegs gone and its tail decomposed down to the vertebrae.
The cycle of life.
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