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Biology Matters - Garden
Bugs - Useful Bugs - Garden Insect Control
Bugs &
Insects, Useful Garden Bugs
You’ve worked very hard
to establish your new garden – designing the layout, preparing the soil, planting
the seedlings. You can just taste those red sun-ripened tomatoes! One
of your foremost concerns is probably pest control. If the wrong critter
begins making a lunch out of your tomatoes, by dinnertime all that hard work
you devoted to your garden was merely waste of time. However, there are
some bugs and insects that will actually benefit your garden...
Like all living things bugs
and insects must feed. “Good” predator bugs that will feed upon the “bad”
bugs and insects in your garden include the praying mantis, ladybugs (ladybird
beetles), green lacewing larvae and big-eyed bugs.
Bees are another great addition
to your garden. Bees pollinate. The more pollination, the greater
yield of fruit and vegetables. Without pollination, your garden is worthless.
Certain species of wasps
are also a valuable addition to your garden. Earthworms will work and
build your soil for you.
Many of these helpful garden
critters are sold in quantity by insectaries including your local garden centers,
mail order companies and seed companies.
Snakes will do your garden
good! However, because the generally scare people, the first thing that usually pops into someone’s mind when they are fortunate
to happen across one is to kill it before it escapes. However, the general
public is becoming better educated and now garden snakes are making their way
into the heart and gardens of avid gardeners.
Click
here to learn how to add Ladybugs to your garden
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