Roll out the floral carpet in your garden to attract beneficial insects and keep them there. In our new video Tricia talks about releasing predator beneficial insects into your garden as organic pest control. To make those beneficials happy you need to have some bad bugs present for them to munch on, and also flowers they will enjoy at various stages of their lives. FLOWERS & FOOD FOR BENEFICIAL INSECTS In general, beneficials like flowers that look like daisies or Queen Anne’s Lace, according…
September 20, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Roll out the floral carpet in your garden to attract beneficial insects and keep them there. In our new video Tricia talks about releasing predator beneficial insects into your garden as organic pest control.…
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Integrated Pest Management = IPM = Controlling bad bugs with the least toxic methods IPM is a system endorsed by the EPA. It looks at the big picture of destructive insects, starting with the most natural…
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Vampire movies are big right now, but most people don’t want their blood sucked by mosquitoes. They don’t want flies biting them, either, or landing on platters of food. Get rid of those pesky…
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I use BT to help curtail damaging insects. If I release beneficial insects into my garden must I stop using BT?
Heather Vestre Says:
Sep 23rd, 2011 at 10:54 am
You must top using chemicals as soon as possible! Typically your benificials are affected worse than your pests, as the pests develop a resistance to them, whereas the benificials do not.
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