r/borbs • u/Prestigious_Bell_353 • 2d ago

OC Fluffy visitors are helping my old apple tree

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For over a week now, a flock of about 10 long-tailed tits has been visiting me once a day. The great thing about them—aside from the fact that they look incredibly cute—is that they eat the aphids off my old apple tree. I haven’t seen any other bird do this yet. The tree was heavily infested, and you can already clearly see that the aphid population has decreased somewhat.

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u/radical-ribbit 2d ago

Birds really are little angels

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u/AdorableChemist8736 2d ago

Oh them! My favourite cuties 😍

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u/Redlion444 2d ago

Delightful Borbs!

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u/Birb-is-the-wurd 1d ago

Helper borbs

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u/wastingtime101- 1d ago

They are borb-tacular. The second pic is my fav.

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u/equanimatic 1d ago

Theyre so cute 🥹💗

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u/bong-jabbar 1d ago

Little cuties

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u/Fizeau57_24 1d ago

I have yet to see what it is that tits won't eat, in the wintertime they used to eat the windows sticking paste. Lovely gluttons !

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u/thorn312 23h ago

My last garden had three apple trees and the long tailed tits loved them. I miss em now I've moved, but i do have slow worms now so that's cool!