Pollinators move quietly through our landscapes--solitary bees, bumble bees, butterflies and moths, flies, wasps, beetles, and hummingbirds. Some are already visiting your garden. Others are simply waiting to be welcomed.
They are more than beautiful--they are essential. They carry life from flower to flower and, in turn, become part of the great web of nourishment for other living things. As E.O. Wilson so wisely said, “Insects are the little things that run the world.”
Take a slow walk through your property. Pause. Look closely.
You may begin to notice that your garden is already alive--and that you are part of it.
Metallic Green sweat bee on echinacea
Flat-tailed Leafcutter bee on sedum
Eastern Bumblebee and allium
Margined Calligrapher on dandelion
Monarch butterfly on liatris
Ligated Furrow bee on coreopsis cultivar
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasps
Red-spotted Admiral butterfly
American Copper butterfly
Transverse-banded Flower fly
Clouded sulfur butterfly on sedum
Silver-spotted Skipper
Bordered Wedge-shaped beetle on Mt. Mint
Hummingbird to vermillion
Fraternal Potter Wasp
Bumble bee and honeybee
Eastern tiger Swallowtail butterfly on lilac
Eastern Bumble bee on cucumber
Ligated Furrow bee
Metallic Green sweat bee
Sachem skipper butterfly
Bumble bee on anise
Four-banded Stink Bug Hunter wasp on boneset
Bumble on spring squill
Mining bee
Unsure but perhaps a mining bee