From
staff reports
news@joplinglobe.com
Not
all insects found in your garden
are ones that you should get bugged about. Some eat the bad insects
that can harm your garden and also help provide the valuable nutrients
that it needs.
Beneficial insects include:
• Bees: They’re
important for pollination.
• Wasps: They eat aphids,
mites, whiteflies, caterpillar eggs, moth
larvae, beetles and corn earwigs.
• Praying mantis: They
eat aphids
• Ladybugs: They eat
aphids, mealy bugs and mites.
• Beetles: Ground beetles,
eat caterpillars, slugs and cut worms.
• Spiders: They eat
lots of different pests.
• Green lacewings:
They eat aphids, mites and a variety of pest eggs.
You can purchase these insects in
at a variety of nurseries or attract
them to your garden by using specific plants.Another fun way of
attracting these bugs is to make them feel at home by building them
a house, using easy-to-find lumber scraps, logs, sticks or bamboo
canes. This bug house can be used year round. During the summer,
bugs can use them for egg laying, and in the winter it can be used
for hibernation.
Watch
the bug box take shape...
Download instruction page
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