Just Buggin' Around

The image that I captured is of a bug museum in a section of the garden that included poisonous herbs and plants. This bug museum is triangular shaped and it includes small pieces of thick branches that have holes in them. These pieces of branches were placed in the triangle bug museum in order for the carpenter bees, which are native to Canada, to use as a shelter to hibernate during the winter. These carpenter bees are solitary bees that do not have a hive to shelter in, therefore they dig holes into pieces of wood and then fill the holes to insulate themselves from the cold. The branches…