Top 10 Beneficial Insects for Your Garden

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That is a great idea to use organic method to eliminate pests in your garden since the organic material is safer to the environment. One of this organic method is using predator or insect that could kill other insects or pests. So here I summarize top 10 beneficial insects for your garden as below:

Braconid Wasps
The adult female of the species Braconid Wasps injects its eggs into their host insects. The larvae spesies then feed inside into their hosts, which include  beetle larvae and moth and aphids. Then the host dies once the larvae have completed their development. Grow nectar insect plants with small flowers in your garden, such as parsley,  dill, yarrow, and wild carrot, to bring them into your garden.

Damsel Bugs
Damsel bugs feed on small caterpillars, aphids,  thrips,  leaf hoppers, and other pesky pests in your garden. Collect damsel bugs from using a sweep net, alfalfa fields, and then release them around your garden.

Aphid Midge
The larvae of this tiny and long legged fly feed on more than 70 species of aphids by paralyzing their prey with toxic saliva liquids. Pollen plants will bring aphid insect midges from your garden.

Top 10 Beneficial Insects for Your Garden


Ground Beetles
The nocturnal ground beetle is a voracious predator of  snails, cutworms, slugs, cabbage maggots, and other pests insects that live in your garden soil. One beetle larva can eat more than 60 caterpillars white clover, white clover  among garden plants for stable habitats, or  Plant perennials as a ground cover in your orchards.

Lacewings
Both larvae  and their adult lacewings will eat aphids, caterpillars,  thrips, mealy bugs, cosmos, scales, and white flies.  coreopsis, Angelica,  and sweet alyssum will bring lacewings into your garden.

Top 10 Beneficial Insects for Your Garden

Lady Beetles
Adult lady beetles eat aphids, mealybugs,  and mites, and their hungry larvae do even more damage to garden pests insects. fennel,  dill, coreopsis, Plant angelica, and yarrow to attract them into your garden.

Minute Pirate Bugs
The quick moving, white and black patterned minute pirate bugs insects will attack almost any insect in your garden. Golden rods,  alfalfa, daisies,and yarrow will attract these bugs.

Spined Soldier Bug
The spined soldier bug’s pointed “shoulders” distinguish it from the peskier stink bug. Plant permanent beds of perennials to provide shelter for this predator of hairless caterpillars and beetle larvae.

Tachinid Flies
Tachinid fly larvae burrow their way into many caterpillars, destroying these garden pests from the inside. Plant dill, sweet clover, parsley,  and other herbs to attract adult flies insects.

Soldier Beetles
The soldier beetle feeds on caterpillars, aphids,  and another insects, including beneficial species or harmless. Attract this flying insect by goldenrod planting catnip,and hydrangea.

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