Helpful Garden Dwellers

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Although at first glance, these insects, freshwater and reptiles are very unpleasant and can cause, if you notice them in the garden and in the garden, one desire - to remove them from your land plot as soon as possible, but they can be very useful for preserving the harvest before harvesting. These are the inhabitants of the garden and the garden are biologists very useful

ladybug

A cute insect of wonderful colors. That’s really someone you won’t rise up against in order to drive away with a broom from a flower or from growing seedlings in the garden. And you will do the right thing if you do not drive her out of the garden.

There are sensible gardeners and gardeners who specifically find wintering places for ladybirds (usually they winter in a forest crust, you can find their places of "lying" in April) and transfer them to their garden, both larvae and older individuals. On the bark of trees in May, you can also see yellow eggs of ladybug larvae. Don't destroy them. The ladybug will more than pay back for the kindness of the gardener. Both beetles and larvae eat spider mites, aphids, eggs and hatched small caterpillars.

Lacewing

Another mistake is made by those gardeners who destroy at the beginning of summer only when they see eggs hanging from the leaves of trees in the garden on the finest threads of eggs. This is a multiplying lacewing insect. The eggs will soon hatch into larvae, which will then turn into insects. They, in turn, will eat aphids, ticks, scale insects, caterpillars during the summer in your garden. Moreover, they destroy aphids, both insect larvae and adults.

You can easily distinguish the lacewing from other flying insects - she has many veins on her wings, as well as shiny golden eyes, for this feature of her appearance she was nicknamed.

Ground beetle

Alas, this insect also has a hard time if the gardener, seeing her on the plants in the garden, hurries to eliminate, treat its larvae with chemicals, and spray the plants hastily so that it does not eat or infect it with something. In fact, this is a common ground beetle - a beetle with a metal-cast back. Very smart, I must say.

Its larvae, if found in the soil, look like worms, with several long legs folded on their chest. Do not destroy either one or the other, as the larvae and adults hunt a lot of harmful insects that live in the garden, as well as snails and slugs. This is a nocturnal beetle, therefore its hunt is very successful at night. After all, many of the insects that he hunts also go hunting in a relaxed way in order to eat up and spoil your future harvest.

Garden spiders

We will not talk here about the poisonous and dangerous spiders for the gardener, which are also common in some areas of vast Russia. Let's say that ordinary garden spiders, which unfold their web in your garden and orchard, catch hundreds of harmful insects in it per day. Therefore, do not rush to remove it either from the plants in the garden, or hanging spider nets from the garden fence.

Hover fly

They are also called sirfids. These flies eat hordes of small caterpillars and aphids. But they disliked them because, alas, they look like wasps. On such a small wasp, but exactly with an aspen coloring on the back in bright yellow and black stripes. Most of all, surfers like to sit down and hunt for fragrant dill in the summer garden there.

Garden ants

And to these "citizens" the gardeners have a special conversation. Until now, a single decision has not been made whether to remove them from the garden or leave them to breed and help cope with garden problems.

Here, of course, the gardener himself needs to decide to destroy the garden ants or give them life. On the plus side, ants in the garden eat a lot of harmful insects on it, and field mice also try not to visit such parts of the garden where ant families live.

Of the minuses - the presence of many ants in the garden helps aphids to breed. They can also harm fruits, berries, tree leaves. Trees from ants crawling on it can be protected by scattering ash from a stove or grated chalk under them. The ant beds can be sprinkled with a mixture of sawdust and peat, to which creolin is added.

Frogs, toads, lizards

Very useful animals if they live in or near the garden. Experienced gardeners, if there is no pond or reservoir near your garden, recommend creating such a reservoir, and so that frogs or toads breed in it.

All three species of animals listed in this heading destroy even those pests that are not touched by birds, for example, lizards eat Colorado beetles that live on potatoes and tomatoes. Emerald and steppe colored lizards eat a bear, a beetle, flies and other harmful insects. Frogs and toads love to hunt garden snails, slugs, caterpillars.