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There are scores of insects in every garden, some tiny and some huge! Discover the main ones you might come across. Rarely are they dangerous.

Boxwood tree moth, treatments to control treat its caterpillars

 Box tree moth - Cydalima perspectalis

Attract animals to the garden

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

Thrips, tiny insects that infest plants

 thrips

Onion fly, the reason why maggots are eating up your bulbs

 Onion fly

Gall wasp, a parasite on citrus, oak, and flowers

 Gall wasp

Caterpillars, organic treatments to control them

 Two caterpillars on a nasturtium leaf with pellets of waste.

Organic ant control – effective repellent plants and treatments

 Ants on a stone margin being repelled with organic treatments.

Controlling Scale Insects and Mealybugs

 Scale insects

Provide small animals, insects and birds with shelter

 provide insect bird animals with shelter

Cute and generous, the common honeybee

 honey bee

Whitefly, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

 Whitefly

Wasp, a reputation that deserves a makeover

 Wasp on a piece of old wood

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

 Woodlouse, a useful garden animal

Aphids, how to get rid of them?

 aphid

Foamy spit on plants: harmless parasite or big problem?

 Meadow spittlebug

Potato beetle, strike the striped Colorado beetle early!

 Colorado potato beetle

Cranefly, harmless Daddy Long Legs… but voracious larva!

 Cranefly, daddy longlegs, Tipula

Predator wasp, a voracious feeder… of pests!

 Hunting predator wasp with caterpillar prey

Beneficial insects that lend us gardeners a hand

 Insects that are beneficial for the garden

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

 Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements

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

 Hoverfly on a lawn daisy

Earwig, fearful pinchers we can rejoice about!

 Earwigs on a yellow flower

Ladybug, the assistant gardener

 Ladybug in garden

The ladybug lifecycle, helping us out at every stage

 Ladybug: the lifecycle of this precious garden assistant

Green lacewing, the genesis of aphid lions

 Green lacewing adult on flower

Ground beetle, its favorite food is slugs!

 Ground beetle with metallic colors

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

 Mason bee on wood

Treatment against Otiorhynchus larvae

 Otiorynchus larva in the ground, like a short white worm or caterpillar

Bumblebee, bumbling along and heavyweight pollinator

 Bumblebee hovering near a flower

Aphids and ants on hibiscus killing off flower buds

 Aphids on a hibiscus flower