Neighbor Joyce was startled when she saw a headless rabbit next to her house. She said it was a fresh kill, that it had only one fly on it. She buried it immediately and looked for information on the internet. It seems wolves or coyotes often kill rabbits to eat the head, where most of the nutrients are located. They aren’t interested in the meat on the body. I’ve never eaten brains, although humans do eat them. I would avoid the raw meat of a rabbit, not wanting to eat hair that covered the hare.
The day warmed up, so I ate lunch on the back porch. I spotted the first wasp of the season on the screen nearby. Getting my favorite glass for trapping, I put the glass over it and slipped a piece of cardboard underneath. I sprayed the railing with wasp killer, and while the insect was at the top of the glass, I removed the cardboard and put the glass over the poison. The wasp was dead within a minute, so I felt it was fairly humane. When the weather warms up for good, I often leave the back door open and do not want wasps having free access to the house.
Mehrling Muse 
Well that poor rabbit and now possible coyotes or coyotes and their method of dining is not so nice is it? That’s a good day to remove wasps from your area. I had a big black wasp come into the house a few years ago, either on my clothes or hair. I trapped it in an empty oatmeal box – the thing was big enough to go to work!
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That was very funny!
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It was in the swag lamp and I had a devil of a time getting to it as it went up into the hurricane lantern part. You know me – I don’t like bugs of any type, but at least it didn’t have long legs and could move like a centipede! With this rain we are having every day from Monday through Easter Sunday, the centipedes will be showing up.
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I’ll be having some rain, too. I should watch to see if bugs increase here.
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We got to 76 degrees today – unusual, but dropping 30 degrees tonight. I think all the rain will bring in the ants earlier too – I have those little ants that start coming in by mid-April.
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I often get tiny ants once a year. Haven’t seen them yet.
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I’d like if they take a hike this year. I never had them when I was sprayed for spiders and centipedes in the perimeter of the basement and garage twice a year and the perimeter of the house once a year … but, once I stopped, they began their journey inside.
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I like your method!
That’s scary about the rabbit. Hopefully, you won’t start having problems with coyotes.
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Coyotes have always been around. Once in a while I’ll hear them howl, but usually only when I’m on the porch.
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Keep your head on a swivel anyway! 😁
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It must be the camera angle, that glass looks like it’s leaning.
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I noticed that and took a second shot, which was as crooked as the first.
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It’s a mystery!
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I just noticed I put coyotes or coyotes … coyotes or wolves. Either one is scary. We have a lot of coyotes around here. People with small dogs have to go out in the backyard with them to ensure a coyote doesn’t jump the fence or a Cooper’s Hawk doesn’t get them. We NEVER had going on until recently.
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That is dramatic.
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The Department of Natural Resources puts out bulletins on the radio and social media to be very careful January through March because it is coyote mating season and they are much more aggressive toward people and other animals. The neighborhood is not what it used to be! About five years ago there was a coyote family living at Council Point Park. They disappeared during the day but people driving by at night, on a moonlit night, saw the parents and one pup prowling around the Park. They left because the dog catcher shot the male in the leg, so they moved on.
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That’s quite a story! March will be over in a few hours, so I don’t have long to worry about coyote mating season.
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That’s good – no more aggressive coyotes hopefully. They are a real problem here because their habitats are being torn up and they have nowhere to go.
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We have lots of wood near us for the coyotes.
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Well I hope they stay in there. The coyotes cross the Detroit River and also the Ecorse Creek. They go out on the ice right when people are standing on the boardwalk.
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That’s amazing.
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Yes, there was a little dog out on the ice at the Detroit River a few years ago … he ran out there and a coyote was following him. Someone wanted to shoot the coyote, but they shooed him away and someone from Canada, on the opposite side of the Detroit River shoreline, got an air boat and rescued him. They ended up keeping him as it was a stray and called it “Miracle”.
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I wouldn’t like to see a headless rabbit either. I was unhappily that time I found a dead rabbit with various parts missing in my flower garden.
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That would be alarming.
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Glad you got rid of the wasps without getting stung. Those can really hurt bad!!
I never heard that before about a predator eating only the head of a rabbit. Interesting!!
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Joyce sent a photo around the neighborhood, which I declined to pass on.
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Oh boy, when I read about the headless rabbit my mind went instantly to a ditched unhappy lover, and I’m so relieved that instead is all on the wolves. I didn’t know they had a thing for animals heads and Im relieved to know neighbour Joyce is safe and not haunted by a vicious stalker😎
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Finding a headless rabbit would gross me out, I have never seen a wasp
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I hope you never meet a wasp. The ones on my porch are rather lethargic, but an angry one can sting you painfully. I have a neighbor who is highly allergic to the sting. Luckily I’m not.
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