Useful insects of the garden and garden - the natural salvation of your site
Many gardeners and gardeners have a problem with pest control. The poison that helps to exterminate them needs to be changed almost every year, since the old ones no longer work. At the same time, people do not take into account that beneficial insects of the garden and vegetable garden help to defeat aphids, caterpillars, snails and other "dirty tricks" more effectively than various chemicals.
How to attract beneficial garden and vegetable insects?
- Often, crop rescuers do not settle on the plot due to the lack of housing for them. In European countries, special houses are even sold for them. This is especially important during the cold season. Planks, sawdust, bark and leaves placed on the ground can be an excellent shelter.
- There are some special ferromones and nutrient mixes available to attract beneficial insects to your garden.
- Insecticide treatment kills both pests and garden defenders. Unfortunately, the former breed and restore their numbers much sooner than the latter.
- Grow plants loved by ladybirds, ground beetles and other gardeners' friends. These include:
- yarrow
- chamomile
- parsley
- mustard
- dill
- mint
- calendula
- coriander
- marigold
- sweet clover
It is advisable not to dig up plots of land with these plants in the fall, so that beneficial insects overwinter there.
List of beneficial insects of the garden and vegetable garden
- ladybug
Effectively fights sucker and aphids. The larvae of this insect eat 350 thousand aphids per week, and an adult about 5 thousand. In our country, there are about 70 species of ladybugs. - Ground beetle
It is a large, three-centimeter, fast-running beetle that feeds on larvae (about 100 per day), caterpillars (about 10 pieces per day), gall midges, slugs and snails. - Beetle - "fireman"
A small insect with powerful jaws. Promotes "cleansing" trees from aphids, caterpillars and leaf-eating pests. - Lacewing
It is an insect with transparent wings and shiny eyes of a golden hue. Lacewing larvae eat several thousand aphids, scale insects, spider mites and other pests during development. An adult feeds on pollen and honeydew. - Forest bug
It is a tree weevil. The most useful for the garden are false, flower and soft bug. They consume the eggs of spider mites, aphids, caterpillars and gall midge larvae. - Hover fly
This insect easily copes with aphid infestation. Hoverflies are used to kill prey with hooked jaws. They like to settle in unkempt flower beds, lawns and wooden boxes with shavings. - Fitoseyulus
A predator mite that eats a spider mite. He easily copes with almost the entire mass of this pest. - Fly-tahina
Its female lays eggs on the larvae of sawflies, caterpillars, bedbugs and beetles. The hatched insects destroy the pests they are on. - Trichogramma
Small egg eater. It is bred in special nursery laboratories. - Parasite rider
The insect is similar to a wasp and fights many parasites like the tahina fly.