Many home and garden bugs are considered "beneficial"
- meaning they are
actually helpful and can keep undesirable troublemakers under
control.
For example:
* One ladybug can eat 5,000 aphids in its lifetime.
* Dragonflies can eat 300 mosquitoes in a day.
* One lacewing larva can eat 60 aphids in an hour.
To learn how to attract
beneficial insects
to your garden and help keep
pesty troublemakers under control, click on
Growing
A Healthy Garden to
Manage Pests Naturally .
To see photos and learn more about beneficial insects, visit the
University of
California's website on Natural Enemies at www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/NE/index.html.
To order beneficial insects from a supplier, contact www.rinconvitova.com or www.greenmethods.com .
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