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Beneficial insects

Beneficial insects of all sorts roam around our gardens, helping us with pest control, cleaning up, and other chores. Learn which ones you might meet here.

Eupatorium maculatum

Joe-Pye Weed: expert tips for growing this tall garden favorite

Perennials
Bumblebee feeding on purple lavender flowers in a sunny summer garden

How to Turn Your Garden into a Bee and Butterfly Haven

Special reports
Dense cluster of green aphids covering a rose stem and new growth buds

The Mistake Most Gardeners Make with Aphids in Summer

News
Dense cluster of green aphids covering a rose bud and stem in summer

Aphids Are Colonising Your Roses Right Now — Here’s How to Stop Them Fast

Roses
Woodlouse, a useful garden animal

Woodlouse, who would’ve guessed roly-polys were so useful?

Special reports
improve pollination

How to improve cross-pollination

Special reports
Wasp on a piece of old wood

Wasp, a reputation that deserves a makeover

Special reports
Ground beetle with metallic colors

Ground beetle, its favorite food is slugs!

Special reports
Hunting predator wasp with caterpillar prey

Predator wasp, a voracious feeder… of pests!

Special reports
Mason bee on wood

Mason bee, a solitary worker bee that burrows in the ground

Special reports
Bumblebee hovering near a flower

Bumblebee, bumbling along and heavyweight pollinator

Special reports
Hoverfly on a lawn daisy

Hoverfly: looks like a wasp, flies like a hummingbird, works like a bee!

Special reports
honey bee

Cute and generous, the common honeybee

Animal care
Earwigs on a yellow flower

Earwig, fearful pinchers we can rejoice about!

Treating diseases and pests
Insects that are beneficial for the garden

Beneficial insects that lend us gardeners a hand

Special reports
Ladybug: the lifecycle of this precious garden assistant

The ladybug lifecycle, helping us out at every stage

Treating diseases and pests
Green lacewing adult on flower

Green lacewing, the genesis of aphid lions

Treating diseases and pests
Permaculture principles is like a flywheel building up speed

Permaculture main principles and definition

The Vegetable Patch
thrips

Thrips, tiny insects that infest plants

Treating diseases and pests
types of thrips

Types of thrips – pests, predators and recyclers

Treating diseases and pests
Impact of insecticides on garden butterflies and bumblebees

Impact of insecticides on garden butterflies and bumblebees

Special reports
Red spider mite

Red spider mite, best organic treatments to get rid of it

Treating diseases and pests
A deluxe insect hotel with holes, nooks and crannies for insects.

Attract animals to the garden

Treating diseases and pests
Ladybug in garden

Ladybug, the assistant gardener

Treating diseases and pests
aphid

Aphids, how to get rid of them?

Treating diseases and pests
Tomato pinworm

Tomato pinworm, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

Treating diseases and pests