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Garden Tips - Beneficial Insects
A healthy organic garden supports a host of
beneficial and benign insect life. Ladybugs, praying mantis, soldier
beetles and spiders are predatory to plant pests; they should be
encouraged to live in your garden. Ladybugs are attracted by Queen
Anne’s lace and parsley, consuming aphids and scale. Preying mantis
will eat almost every problem insect. Soldier Beetles need undisturbed
soil layers for their grubs to mature and will eat vegetable-loving
pests, such as potato beetles. Bees and wasps are important
pollinators, without which we would have no fruits and fewer flowers.
Unless bees are causing a direct threat (if they are coming in the
house or crowding you off your porch) their hives may be left in the
garden. Remember that all caterpillars will turn into butterflies and
that a healthy organic garden supports micro-organisms, insects, plants
and wildlife.
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