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Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:24 pm**

I try to attract beneficial insects to my garden to take care of the pests. It means that I tolerate damage, but in the end the good bugs do a better job than I can in controlling the worst problems.

As a result. I have very few problems with aphids, scale, or cabbage worms.

I have in the past though squashed a few lady bug larvae thinking they were pests. (They are ugly!), and I might have let a few mealy bugs go thinking they were mealybug destroyers.

So, I am posting a few links to sites with pictures of the good guys we should all try to encourage to come to our gardens and try to be pest and pesticide free.

https://www.organicgardening.com/learn-a ... s?page=0,0
https://www.beneficialinsects101.com/nematodes.html
https://www.farmerfred.com/plants_that_a ... enefi.html
https://insects.about.com/od/insectpests ... nsects.htm
https://www.motherearthnews.com/plants-t ... z2OByPZc4M

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:57 pm**

This was a good idea and I'm going to go check out those pages as soon as I get the chance.

Be sure to take a look at this sticky thread in the "Organic Insect and Plant Disease Control" Forum as well

Beneficial insects