What Creatures are in Your Backyard?

An urban farmer battles a diverse set of creatures when trying to grow a garden of vegetables.

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WHAT CREATURES ARE IN YOUR BACKYARD?
Cyndi Huculak
2019
INTRODUCTION

What kind of animals or creatures do you have that live around your plants in the garden?
We will be planting a garden and have some plants that we will grow and harvest in the fall and we want to know whose living around my garden plants.



These are the plants we will plant today:
1.	Green onions
2.	Corn
3.	Beans
4.	Beets
5.	Lettuce
Here we have planted green onions.  
Four months later, let’s see what type of creature likes a green onion plant?
Look closely, here comes the ants and beetles.


Next we plant the corn.  It looks like in a few months to be tall and golden.  
When it is grown, what kind of animal creature eats the corn?
The deers munch on the leaves, and stalk of corn, the bees suck the juices and the birds peck the kernels.



Alright, we have planted the beans and corn. Now the beans have grown into skinny and tall beans. 
What type of creatures eat the beans?
The caterpillars munch on the leaves and the ladybugs hide in the vines.  There are squirrels that chew on the beans.



Well now, we will grow beets.  They root in the ground with their, juicy leaves providing shade to the plant.
What type of creatures eat the beet plant? 
There is the worm munching a hole thru the beet leaf.


If you can squint in the sun, there is moths and butterflies hiding in the leaves, and the deer goes for a quick snack.


How about some lettuce?
After stormy weather and sunny days, the lettuce leaves are vivid and green.
What type of creatures eats the lettuce?
If you look closely, there is the moth and butterfly resting on the leaves.  A little farther away, a deer munched on the vegetable and has a quick snack.





Time flies and the gardener weeds the plants.
Harvest time! 
Let’s go see what we can eat for salad tonight from our vegetable garden.

Aagh!  The creatures in the garden ate it all!
All I have left is the mud! There will be no harvest or salad after all.

The End!
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