Do you want to control the bad bugs in your garden without pesticides and chemicals? Would you like to have beautiful garden plants and luscious veggies without those nasty chemicals? The use of beneficial insects for your garden has long been a practice of gardeners for years. You too can learn their secrets. This is going to be long because there are so many wonderful beneficial insects for your garden and they play different roles.

* Trichogramma Wasps: These wasps feed on the larvae and eggs of worms and other nasty pests in the yard and garden. These wasps actually go to the nest of worms and other insects and lay their own eggs. When the eggs of the invaded nest hatch, the wasps eat them. When it’s all done the wasps leave for a new nest to start all over.

* Stink Bugs: Ewww most of us get rid of these smelly things. Yet, they are very helpful in the garden. Stink bugs like to eat worms and beetles. They’re terrific for fruits and roses.

*Praying Mantis: These are absolutely fascinating insects to watch. The female actually kills the male after mating. But for your garden and yard praying mantis feed on a wide variety of bugs including aphids, flies, beetles, grasshoppers and crickets.

*Parasitic nematodes: Now these guys are terrific for in the ground. They are little bitty worms. You have to order them. They get rid of the pests that are in your dirt and attack the root plants.

*Ladybugs: Ladybugs are thought to bring good luck. If one lands on you, make a wish and it will come true. In the garden they eat soft bugs and eggs that are bad for your yard and garden. These little ladies are hungry. In their lifetime they will eat an average of 5,000 other bugs.

*Cryptolaemus Beetles: These little guys look like ladybugs. They are darker and slightly larger then the ladybugs though. They’re favorite food is mealy bugs. They are great for laying their eggs and larvae on infected plants. The babies will devour up the mealy bugs after they are born.

*Green lacewings larvae: These are great for your garden. They love to eat spider mites, leafhoppers, caterpillar eggs, white flies and thrips. You normally have to buy Green lacewings larvae. They eat for 2 to 3 weeks at a time. The adults are slow at making more larvae. After your larvae get to be adults you will want to replace them with more larvae near any infested area of your garden or yard.

For your garden you can use: Trichogramma Wasps, Stink Bugs, Praying Mantis, Parasitic nematodes, Ladybugs, Cryptolaemus Beetles and Green lacewings larvae. Most of these have to be bought. You will want to avoid pesticides in your yard and garden because you will kill off the good and the bad bugs. Try to keep some appropriate bushes and flowers around to keep the good bugs in your yard.

References for this article:

http://www.thegardenhelper.com /goodbugs.html

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