Beneficial Garden InsectsGood Garden Bugs
The use of beneficial insects, is an effective and responsible way of controlling many garden pests, natures way. By encouraging these good bugs to stay in your garden, you can keep most insect pest populations at a minimum. You will proabably still have a few beetles or caterpillars nibbling on the plants, but when you enlist the help of their natural enemies, you restore a more perfect balance.
When you enlist the help of beneficial insects in your garden: *Avoid using toxic pesticides. They kill the beneficial insects as well as the garden pests. *Introduce some new populations of beneficial garden insects * Releast your new beneficial insects in the evening after you have sprinkled water in the release area.(the insects are thirsty after traveling)
Lady BeetlesLady Beetles are excellent for controllig aphids. Females lay eggs, and provide a second wave of pest-eaters within a week. And these larvae, which can't fly, have an even bigger appetite than the adults! 900 adult Lady Beetles will produce more than 10,000 pest-eating larvae in your garden within 30 days. They will stay right where they are and just keep eating those bad bugs! With that many bugs defending your garden,those nasty little aphids won't stand a chance! Your Roses will Thank You
Green LacewingsAbout 10 of these Chrysoperla sp. lacewing eggs per plant or 1,000 eggs per 200 sq. ft. will control a moderate aphid population. These beneficial garden insects are the best all-purpose garden predator! Controls a good number of predators, including:aphids, mealybugs, immature scales and whiteflies, thrips, spider mites and other plant pests.
The kids find these bugs very interesting! Like "bugs from another planet" or something. Well, I must admit, they are a bit exotic looking....
Mason BeesBelieve it or not, there’s a kind of bee that is up to 90% more efficient at pollinating plants than honeybees! Plus, it doesn’t sting. It’s a common species called the mason bee, and you can encourage its presence of these beneficial garden insect in your garden by offering a place for the bees to nest. Great for pollinating your flowers in the garden!
NematodesGrub-Away Nematodes They attack nearly every type of soil-dwelling garden pest. Use them to control cutworms, borers (including squash vine, peach tree and iris borers), corn earworms, cabbage root maggots, weevils (including strawberry, carrot and black vine weevils), wireworms, armyworms and even flea larvae.They eliminate both types of common lawn grubs. Grub-Away controls grubs of both Japanese beetles and masked chafer beetles. Milky Spore disease, the standard control for lawn grubs, works against Japanese Beetle grubs but not masked chafer grubs, which cause more than 50% of all lawn-grub damage. They are more effective than other commercially-available nematodes. While other beneficial nematodes wait passively for prey, ours move up to 10 times farther and much deeper into the soil. Grub-Away Nematodes also have a special "tooth" that burrows into their prey, allowing faster control of pests. Grub-Away also works within days of application. With Milky Spore disease, you might not see results for a year or more!
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