You are never alone when you are in a garden. There are countless invertebrates all around you. If you look closely you may notice spiders, bumblebees, honeybees, other wild bees, wasps, hornets, caterpillars, butterflies, moths, ants, earthworms, earwigs, centipedes, pill bugs, sow bugs, ladybugs, beetles, and many other species of tiny animal. Yes, all of these are animals.
A wild bee or wasp on a snowberry flower. It was smaller than a honeybee and very quick.
Caterpillars eating the cabbage. If left alone, these caterpillars will become butterflies. One is near the top centre of the photo, the other is in the lower right corner.
Ants collecting nectar from a zucchini flower.
A bumblebee coming in to collect nectar from snowberry flowers. Unlike domesticated honeybees, bumblebees do not turn nectar into honey. They do not require a stored food source for the winter as the worker bees do not live past the fall.
