How Do You Attract Beneficial Insects To Control Garden Pests?
As a gardener, there’s nothing more frustrating than finding a prized vegetable crop being devoured by insect pests. A couple of hornworms can level a row of tomatoes overnight. Fortunately, every pest has a predator, and we can use that natural food chain to our advantage. A sufficient number of beneficial insects will keep garden pests to manageable numbers. You just have to know how to attract those beneficial insects to your garden.Beneficial Insects, Nature’s Pest Control: Put simply, a beneficial insect is an insect (or other arthropod) that helps you grow healthy plants. Some insects prey on other arthropods, eating pests like aphids and beetles. Other beneficial insects parasitize pests, eventually killing them. And still other insects help the gardener by pollinating crops, insuring a good harvest. Ideally, you should try to attract all three kinds of beneficial insects to your garden – predators, parasitoids, and pol
