Garden Visitors

 

Plant Friends
	Ladybugs are helpful in your garden because they eat aphids that eat your plants.
	Bumblebees zoom into the plant's blossom, twirl and vibrate until the pollen explodes.  Pollen covers the bee's body; she pushes the pollen down into a tiny food basket which she carries home to feed her colony..  Bees are attracted to flowers that have an irregular shape to provide platforms such as mints, violets, and snapdragons.
	Butterflies are attracted to nectar.  They often visit the same flowers that bees do.
	Moths are nocturnal and pollinate flowers that are pale or white, more visible at night and fragrant at dusk.  The flowers are often tubular so that nectar is accessible to long moth tongues.
	Earthworms perform important tasks in a garden.  As they move through the earth they eat debris,and excrete a rich natural fertilizer called castings.  This fertilizer is rich in nitrogen.  Earthworms create a network of tunnels that aerate the soil and enable plant roots to breathe and grow.
Plant Foes
	Aphids eat leaves which is no good for the poor plant.
	Japanese Beetles like to eat

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