Many insects are not only pests, but also useful garden assistants. We are used to fighting the former, but what are the advantages of the latter? Where are they found and what to do if they are not on your site? The answer is simple - start! You need to make your garden and garden comfortable for insects.
The team of helpers against unwanted insects and other plant enemies includes many species of insects. We will analyze them in more detail.
Bumblebees, Sliding or Grave Wasps
Their offspring not only destroys pests, but also actively participates in pollination of the garden. In addition, their diet consists of insects such as white flies, cherry-fruit flies, aphids, cicadas, leaf beetle larvae and cabbage white caterpillars. For breeding bumblebees, you can buy one beehive from beekeepers.
Predatory mites
Mostly feed on plant pests such as spider mites or blackberry mites. Predatory bugs exterminate pink cicadas. Their larvae are very voracious. They destroy eggs of the spider mite, sawfly beetle, Colorado potato beetle and decorative flower pests.
They are sold, as a rule, in specialized stores, in paper bags. After opening, they are simply squeezed into the soil and mixed thoroughly.
Ticks can adapt to any adverse conditions. They are very tenacious. For example, scorpions are able to live without food for two years, and ticks for more than ten years.
A helpful helper in the garden is the Rider Beetle.
Such pests as wasps, ants, bugs and even caterpillars will not hide from it. Some go hunting for aphids or pollinate fruit trees and berry bushes. Rider beetle larvae are sold in containers. It is taken from the calculation of one insect per ten plants.
An avid pest of dangerous insects such as aphids, ticks, leaf flies, burrows, worms, insects, etc. Its popularity in the summer cottage is explained by the fact that only in their larval period they eat up to 3000 plant lice or spider mites, depending on the species.
In order for the ladybug to live on your site, she needs to create the necessary conditions or buy on an identical farm. No wonder they say that she brings good luck.
In ladybugs, with the slightest danger, droplets appear on the bends of the legs, similar to milk. It is not intended to be consumed at all, but only to scare away the enemies that ladybirds have.
Hardworking pollination assistants
Wild bees, bumblebees, soaring flies and other important plant pollinators should also be encouraged in the garden. They, along with honey and brick bees, provide reproduction of plants, and apple trees, cherries and other fruit trees give more yield.
Fear of stinging insects is often exaggerated. Animals resist only when they feel threatened. Wild bees that do not form a state, but live alone, the so-called solitaire, sting only when they are caught. Many species of solitaire bees are now in danger of extinction because their natural habitats are being destroyed - another reason to put them in the garden. Soaring flies look menacing with their tan body color, but have no sting.
Food and shelter for beneficial insects
You can not only buy beneficial insects, but also create favorable conditions for them on your site. In order for beneficial insects to feel comfortable in your garden, you must put tree branches in small heaps in hidden corners. Drywall or a small pile of stones heated by the sun is also a welcome place.
The slots provide weather protection and are suitable as a place to store eggs for predators and other minerals. Hedges and local forests serve as a habitat for many plants. So, flour worms, feeding mainly on insect eggs, feel comfortable in clay pots filled with wood wool, hung upside down from the trees.
Also, leave nettles in the garden because it serves as food for many butterfly caterpillars. Other popular feed plants include herbs such as fennel, dill, sage and thyme, as well as flowers such as leeks, bellflower, thistle and yarrow.