Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control
It may seem counterintuitive to want bugs in a garden, but insects are indeed valuable garden companions. Especially those species known for eating the bugs that eat plants. Assassin bugs, damsel bugs, and predatory stink bugs are all carnivores that devour the bugs that dine on a garden....
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It may seem counterintuitive to want bugs in a garden, but insects are indeed valuable garden companions. Especially those species known for eating the bugs that eat plants. Assassin bugs, damsel bugs, and predatory stink bugs are all carnivores that devour the bugs that dine on a garden. Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden is a book about bugs and plants, and how to create a garden that ben¬efits from both. In addition to information on companion planting and commercial options for purchasing bugs, there are 19 detailed bug profiles and 39 plant profiles. The bug profiles include a description, a photograph for identification, an explanation of what they do for the garden, and the methods gardeners can use to attract them. The plant profiles highlight the best plants for attracting beneficial bugs and offer detailed information on size, care requirements, zone information, and bloom time. Design plans show gardeners how to design a border specifically for the bugs. This complete, hands-on guide is for anyone looking for a new, natural, and sustainable way to control pests.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781604693881 (1604693886)
ASIN: 1604693886
Publish date: December 31st 2013
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
I didn't read this straight through because I can't read about bugs during my lunch break, but I did use it to make a plant list for the library garden. It is extra useful because the author lives in my state so the plant suggestions are targeted to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I didn't read this straight through because I can't read about bugs during my lunch break, but I did use it to make a plant list for the library garden. It is extra useful because the author lives in my state so the plant suggestions are targeted to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Attracting Beneficial Bugs to your garden is an ecosystem based approach to managing pests in your garden. Written by a professed past insecticide user turned bug-lover, this book is written with humor and a down-to-earth approach. There is a lot of great information in here, especially about plan...