The smallest animals in the garden do the strangest things. One of them even rebuilds its whole body. Turn the page.
A caterpillar has one job, and that job is eating. It chews leaves nearly all day and grows so fast that in about two weeks it can go from shorter than a grain of rice to about the length of your finger.
When a caterpillar has finished growing it finds a quiet spot, hangs upside down, and splits its skin one last time. What is underneath is not a caterpillar any more. It is a chrysalis, a smooth case with a butterfly being built inside.
A bee is fuzzy for a reason. Pollen, the yellow dust in the middle of a flower, sticks all over those tiny hairs while the bee is busy drinking nectar. The bee then combs the dust down into little baskets on its back legs, called corbiculae, and carries it home.
Leafcutter ants snip pieces out of leaves and carry them home along a trail, held up like green sails. Some pieces are so big for the ant that it would be like you carrying a dining table down the street, over your head, the whole way.
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