Insect Life at 2150 Maple Street, Vancouver
 
The Vancouver Compost Garden has been an organic garden for 25 years. Photos © taken by Maria Keating (www.thebuglady.ca).

   
Dragonfly: A Darner hunts swiftly over ponds, lakes and streams.
Stinkbug or Shieldbug: Named for its strong defense odor.
Cabbage Looper Egg: Very round. Watch for these on all brassicas.
Spiders are friends.
Orchard Mason Bee, Blue Bee, Osmia: An early spring pollinator.
Farmed for their sticky honeydew secretions, aphids are protected by ants.
It's a sign of spring when aphids have wings.
Aphidius mummy: Mini wasps will lay an egg individually into an aphid.
Ladybug: Don't forget about this voracious aphid predator.
The momma ladybug knows to lay its eggs where there are lots of food.
Click beetle: The adult of the nasty wire worm.
Green Shield Bug
Sow bugs: One of the best decomposers in BC.
Centipede: Quick reddish insect with a "hundred" legs, great in your compost.
Red Tailed Bumble Bee: Great pollinator watch in the spring for Queen's flight.