1. Lady Beetles
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: They eat aphids and other softbodied pest eggs, scales and whitefly nymphs.
Bait Them With: Asters, marigolds, cosmos, cilantro, yarrow, dill, cabbages, sweet alyssum, flowering kale.
2. Ground Beetles
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: They will destroy slugs, snails, cutworms, flys and rootmaggot eggs and larvae.
Bait Them With: Sweet or white clover and other ground covers; also use mulch to provide habitat.
3. Hoverfly
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: Maggots eat softbodied pests such as aphids.Bait Them With: Feverfew, lavender, sweet alyssum, candytuft, dill, fennel, asters.
4. Lacewings
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: Their larvae prey on pest eggs, aphids, scales and small caterpillars.
Bait Them With: Most pollen and nectar flowers, dill, daisies, fennel, angelica.
5. Aphid Midges
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: Immature insects feed on many species of aphids.Bait Them With: Nectar-rich flowers and herbs, including Queen Anne’s lace, dill, mustards.
6. Parasitic Wasps
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: They act as parasites by laying eggs in caterpillar and aphid larvae.
Bait Them With: Dill, mint, sage, thyme, lavender, coriander, Queen Anne’s lace, sunflowers.
7. Bumblebees, Honeybees, Mason Bees
Benefits Of Having Them In Your Garden: They pollinate food crops.Bait Them With: Orchard fruits, mustards, cress, wildflowers, clover, blueberries, hollyhock.
Thanks to Reader's Digest for the great information once again, for more great tips and tricks check out: http://www.readersdigest.ca/
Good job everyone. You did great with this project. My hope is that you all continue to be excited about knowing where your food comes from, having an influence in the food you all eat at the university, and trying to grow some of your own food. Food sustainability and food sovereignty is important here - and around the world. Today, the first raised beds were completed in front of Radical Edge. This is the beginning of planting food around the city. Everyone should have the ability to know where their 'supermarket' food comes from, what it means to their health and the environment, and how it is a part of a food chain that impoverishes people around the world. As first year students, you did a great job with this project. Have a great summer and see you next year.
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