INVERTEBRATES OF WILDERGARDEN
Invertebrates
A majority of invertebrates are invisible to the inattentive eye. Several of the invertebrates captured on camera were not even noticed until we looked at a large version of the image! If you can’t see any critters in a photo, they are probably hiding. They often are small and move quickly (or are on something that is being moved by the wind), so getting a good photo can be difficult.
Invertebrates include insects, spiders, worms, mollusks (e.g. snails and slugs), and arthropods (e.g. pill bugs).
Most flowers are either wind or insect pollinated. Insects and other invertebrates are essential to our ecosystem.
These are some of the invertebrates we have encountered at Wildergarden:
Great Grey Slug on straw
Slugs help to decompose our straw ground cover
Poke stalks for winter insect habitat
Fly
Earwig
Grape leaffolder moth
Butterfly
Moth
Camel Cricket
Bee at burrow opening
Bumble bee on Virginia Bluebell
Slug
Butterfly
Caterpillar
Stink Bug
Spider on Bur sedge
Wasp Gall
Ants, Aphids, and Lacewing on Goldenrod
Cabbage looper
Stink bug
Mosquito
Spider
Wasp
Green Sweat Bee
Common Pill-Bug
Green June Beetle
Coppery Leafhopper
Bumble Bee
Moth
Bald-Faced Hornet
Candy-Striped leafhopper
Firefly
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Black (Carpenter) ant
Slug baby
Young earthworm
