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Backyard Wildlife: The Critters in My Garden

For me, half of the fun of having a garden is watching the critters that come to enjoy it. Here are some of the critters that have shown up in my garden (and my family’s garden) in the last couple of years.

Learn more about backyard habitat by reading these articles

  • Food plants for caterpillars and butterflies
  • How to Create Good Wildlife Habitat in Your Backyard
  • Plants that provide food and shelter in fall and winter for wildlife
  • How To Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
  • Native plants
  • American holly: winter color and cover for wildlife
  • The Stunning Beauty of a Moth – Moths from My Backyard
  • My favorite feathered visitors
  • December garden visitors
  • Making a Home for Gulf Fritillary Butterflies in My Garden
  • Butterflies from my garden
  • The Hummingbirds are Coming! Fall Migration of Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds
  • If It Were a Snake, It Would Have Bit Me
Male Indigo Bunting
Male Indigo Bunting
Butterfly coming out of chrysallis
Tiger moth
Southern Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
Southern Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
Eastern box turtle
Baby flickers
Bluetail lizard
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Bluetail lizard
Box turtle
Broad headed skink
Northern cardinal
Male Indigo Buntings
Male Indigo Buntings
Swallowtail caterpillar
Honey bees
Eyed click beetle
Green anole
Katydid
Broad headed skink
Luna moth
Mantis among tomatoes
Monarch caterpillar
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Snake
Speckled king snake
Spotted spider
Tree frog taking refuge in my seedlings
Broad headed skink
Turtle eating mushroom
Turtle eating mushroom
White-lined Sphynx Moth (Hyles lineata)
White-lined Sphynx Moth (Hyles lineata)

And here’s some more from 2014

Eater tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) found in late March
Eater tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) found in late March
Honey bee on Claytonnia spp (spring beauty) in the grass.
Honey bee on Claytonnia spp (spring beauty) in the grass.

 

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