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Garden Bugs: The 10
Most Wanted Good Guys
Good Garden Bugs: 10 Most Wanted. In this case these really are wanted!
These are the good bugs you and your family want to have at home.
What's that you say? No such thing as a good insect? The only good insect is a dead one?
Nah. These good guys eat the bad guys. So if you kill off the good guys, you're going to have twice as many bad guys on your hands (and your plants).
Here are the 10 most-wanted bugs worthy of making at home in your backyard:
1 Earthworms: They aerate the soil by tunneling, and their excrement fertilizes it. I call them "poopers".
2 Pillbugs: poopers
3 Dung beetles: poopers (The name says it all!)
4 Bumble bees: pollinate plants
5 Praying mantises: eat bad pests
6 Lacewings: eat aphids
7 Ladybugs: eat aphids and other pests
8 Braconid wasps: eat hornworms
9 Butterflies: pollinate plants
10 Wasps: pollinate plants.
The Dirty Dozen: The 12 Garden Bad Guys
Gardening Games for Kids
Container Gardening With Kids
Making Compost Happen
Planting With Kids
Return to Backyard Living
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Go Bare: Bareroot Roses
Go bare this winter by planting the venerable bareroot roses. Here's
how to plant bareroot roses
this winter.
Making Compost Happen
Here's how to make
compost happen
in your backyard.
Bad Bugs: Know
The Dirty Dozen
This dirty dozen bad bugs are the guys you don't want hanging around your plants this winter. Here are the
the bad guys you'll want to send packing this winter.
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