Ant farming

Dogs have sheep to tend to, ants have aphids. 

Ants and aphids 

They hug them and love them and squeeze them and call them George and get nectar droplets for their trouble. 

Aphid milking

All this going on in the backyard on one little plant! 

Hoverfly with aphids 

Hoverfly w/aphids 

Whatever the hell this thing is 

No clue what this is or what it will be eventually...

And everybody’s favorite beetle…

  Ladybug 

And, yes, everything has dog hair on it at my house. No one gets a pass!

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