Good Insects to Help the Gardener
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You will find these helpful garden insects and creatures, lots of gardening books, vegetable gardening info, kids' outdoor yard kits, photos and Great Gardening Ideas and Inspiration!
If you love gardening, are new to the backyard, or know someone who likes to putter in the yard... this is the place for you. You'll find great gifts, helpful gardening products, educational goodies, and more. Come and be delighted and get rid of those bad bugs and replace them with nice bugs!
(pictured: Live Ladybug or Ladybird Beetle photo, sxc.hu)
1500 Real Live Ladybugs shipped straight to YOU!!
"Ladybrd Beetles" are super sweet and Good for your Garden!
1500 Live LadyBugs
Amazon Price: $8.89 (as of 01/06/2010)
Favorite "good bug" ladybugs have been popular beneficial insects for the past 20 years. When released at sundown (because they don't fly at night), ladybugs eat aphids, mealy bugs, scale, leaf hoppers, and other destructive pests. And they keep on eating until the bad guys are gone, laying their own eggs in the process. When new pests arrive, fresh ladybugs will be waiting.
You will love them because ladybugs really work, plus they will be doing something favorable for the environment. LADYBUGS (Hippodamia convergens)
USE: Ladybugs prefer to eat aphids and will devour up to 50 a day, but they will also attack scale, mealy bugs, boil worm, leaf hopper, and corn ear worm. They dine only on insects and do not harm vegetation in any way.
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Ladybug Poll
Ladybugs are amazing creatures that are terrific for your garden, gentle, and lovely!
Ladybug Poem and Legend
If a ladybug lands on you, you can make a wish and chant:
"Ladybird, ladybird fly away home.
Your house is on fire and your children all roam."
If the ladybug flies away, your wish will come true.
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Good Bugs for Your Garden Books
Good Bugs for Your Garden by Allison Mia Starcher
Anyone who gardens knows how snails, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars can damage vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. But not many of us know that ground beetles eat caterpillars, not plants; that dragonflies feed on mosquitoes; that parasitic wasps prey on tomato hornworms. In this delightful guide to the world of beneficial insects, Starcher, an artist and avid gardener, shows us how to identify the "good guys" and encourage them to reside in our gardens. "Altogether delightful."--Ne...1 point
Gardening with Good Bugs by Erin W. Hodgson
Aiding readers in distinguishing between bugs that are beneficial to a garden's health and those that are harmful and disruptive, this guidebook will help gardeners reduce and eliminate insects without using chemical pesticides. With expert horticulture tips-from cultivating plants that attract helpful bugs to discovering common cures that ward off destructive insects-this resource teaches how to use nature to nurture a garden. Detailed illustrations on dozens of the most common b...1 point
Bugs, Slugs & Other Invaders: 50 Ways to Beat Garden Enemies by Sarah Ford
Gardeners who loved 50 Ways to Kill a Slug -which has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide-will welcome this equally practical and wildly funny follow-up. It promises to save plants and banish bad bugs from the backyard with 100 organic, chemical, and simply silly ways to wreak revenge on even the smallest pests. For example, did you know that ants don't like lemon, salt, Vaseline, or cinnamon? That those pesky fruit flies hate basil? Learn how to attract the good creepy-crawlies, including l...1 point
Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically (All You Need to Know about the Insects in Your Garden) by Jessica Walliser
Good Bug, Bad Bug lets you quickly identify the most common invasive and beneficial insects (and other tiny critters) in your garden, and gives the best organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guyswithout reaching for the toxic chemicals. Garden expert Jessica Walliser also offers strategies for dealing with the new bugs in town, those worrisome strangers that are starting to show up as a result of climate change. Thirty-six bugs, presented in full color on laminated st...0 points
Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Howard Garrett, C. Malcolm Beck
"Texas Bug Book, unlike many of the characters it describes, is a keeper-highly recommended as a perfect companion volume to set beside your native plant books."
-Native Plant Society of Texas News
"If you plan on ever stepping outside, or staying inside, or going to bed, Texas Bug Book is a wealth of information you can't possibly live without."-AustinAmerican-Statesman
Texas Bug Book is your complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas....0 points
Bug, Slugs, & Other Thugs: Controlling Garden Pests Organically (Down-To-Earth Book) by Rhonda Massingham Hart
Bugs, Slugs and Other Thugs They slip through the woods under cover of darkness. They drop from the sky shamelessly in broad daylight. They tunnel furiously through the earth. Their destination: your garden. Year after year, your garden is the target of insects and gophers and birds and slugs seeking a free meal. While you may be willing to share part of the crop, damage sometimes gets out of hand; then it's time to take action. Bugs, Slugs and Other Thugs is for gardeners who've lost more than....0 points
Jerry Baker's Bug Off!: 2,193 Super Secrets for Battling Bad Bugs, Outfoxing Crafty Critters, Evicting Voracious Varmints and Much More! (Jerry Baker's Good Gardening series) by Jerry Baker
In this all new collection of cures and controls for unsavory yard invaders, Jerry Baker shares simple tips and tricks to banish bugs and other critters from lawns and gardens-and almost all the ingredients can be found in the average cabinet. With homemade mixes, common products, and "old-fashioned grow-how," gardeners learn how to eliminate virtually any pest problem. Fixes are arranged by yard area afflicted, so a solution can be found as soon as symptoms are seen. Other features include...0 points
The Gardener's Bug Book: Earth-Safe Insect Control by Barbara Pleasant
This completely revised and updated garden guide shows how to identify and control more than 70 common garden insects using the best homemade and commercial control strategies.0 points
The Prairie Gardener's Book of Bugs: A Guide to Living with Common Garden Insects by Ruth Staal, Nora Bryan
With skill, insight, and humour, authors Ruth Staal and Nora Bryan encourage gardeners to stop worrying about bugs, and instead be delighted by them and learn more about their fascinating ways.0 points
Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides) by Whitney Cranshaw
Garden Insects of North America is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species associated with shade trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits--1,420 of them, including crickets, katydids, fruit f...0 points
Gifts for Gardeners
Wow! Praying Mantid 4 Egg Cases 200 to 800 Babies
These are SO amazing to watch hatch!!!
Praying Mantid 2 Egg Cases 100 to 400 Babies
Amazon Price: (as of 01/06/2010)
These harmless creatures eat a wide variety of insects: beetles, caterpillars, grubs, aphids, grass-hoppers, almost anything that moves. But they are so much fun that many people buy them for pets. And since they don't fly, they stay right in the area where they are released. Like ladybugs, preying mantids are completely harmless to people, pets, and the environment.
They will grow through the Spring and Summer until they reach a length of 5 to 6 inches, shedding their skins several times. While most insects are constantly searching for food, Mantids are content to stay in one area and wait for their food to walk by and then grab it with their strong forelegs. This is why they are good to use early in the season, before there are pest problems, and use other insects after pests arrive.
Praying Mantid Poll
As a homeschooling project one year, our family purchased a Praying Mantid (Mantis) egg sack. It was just thrilling to watch all those tiny bugs come into the world! SO many babies come out of one egg sack! And then they are SO great for your veggie or flower garden! If you home-school, have kids, or have grandchildren, delight them with one of nature's true miracles!
Wow! 7 Million Live Beneficial Nematodes-Kills over 230 Bugs
Amazing!
7 Million Live Beneficial Nematodes-Kills over 230 Bugs
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 01/06/2010)
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BENEFICIAL NEMATODES: These microscopic insects will seek out and destroy over 230 kinds of soil dwelling and wood boring insects, including cutworms, armyworms, rootworms, weevils, grubs, fungus gnat larvae, and many more. They are completely safe for people, pets, and the environment, and are compatible with other beneficial insects. Beneficial nematodes are shipped live in the box and may be mixed directly into the soil and are applied with a sprayer. USE: Beneficial Nematodes (BN) attack more than 230 kinds of soil dwelling and wood boring pests, such as flea larvae, white grubs, cutworms, corn root worms, strawberry weevils, gypsy moth larvae, cabbage root maggots, fungus gnat larvae, and many more. Won't harm earthworms.
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Kid's / Children's Bug Kits
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Bee Whisperer Dark T-Shirt
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Praying Mantis Kids T-Shirt
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I believe in ladybugs Women's Cap Sleeve T-Shirt
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Beautiful Butterflies Women's T-Shirt
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Beneficial Bugs info from Wikipedia
Beneficial insects (sometimes called beneficial bugs) are any of a number of species of insects that perform valued services like pollination and pest control. The concept of beneficial is subjective and only arises in light of desired outcomes from a human perspective. In farming and agriculture, where the goal is to raise selected crops, insects that hinder the production process are classified as pests, while insects that assist production are considered beneficial.
Encouraging beneficial insects, by providing suitable living conditions, is a pest control strategy, often used in organic farming, organic gardening or Integrated Pest Management. Companies specializing in biological pest control sell many types of beneficial insects, particularly for use in enclosed areas, like greenhouses.
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- AngEngland AngEngland Aug 14, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
- Great lens. I LOVE to watch praying mantises catching their prey. My mother-in-law brings one or two in the house on warm summer days and puts them in her windowsill to catch any stray flies that get in. SO entertaining.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen May 25, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
- Welcome to The Nature and the Outdoors Group
Lizzy
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- gardenlady gardenlady Apr 23, 2009 @ 1:04 pm
- I love your lens! A lot of people don't know that there really are good bugs. My grandmother taught us never to kill a lady bug - they are much better than pesticides. Lensrolling & 5*s to you.
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- tdove tdove Apr 22, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
- Thanks for joining G Rated Lense Factory!
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- Swisstoons Swisstoons Apr 19, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
- 5-starring and favoriting, too. An excellent lens and perfect for rolling to my Best Buds lens...which is crawling with friendly bugs (and gardeners, too, I hope). I love ladybugs....and have always made it a point to hold the door open for them.
(I believe I read somewhere that they also dine on mosquito larvae.)
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- Rewards4life Rewards4life Apr 14, 2009 @ 6:57 am
- There is never enough of good bugs in my garden. Aphids are just immortal fighters! Great lens and lots of useful info. =)
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Apr 13, 2009 @ 10:22 pm
- What a cool lens. Blessed by a Squidoo Angel. :)
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- enslavedbyfaeries enslavedbyfaeries Apr 13, 2009 @ 12:01 am
- Welcome to the Going Buggy group!
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