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What is Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden about?

This revised and updated edition of Jessica Walliser's award-winning Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden offers a valuable and science-backed plan for bringing balance back to the garden. With this indispensable gardening reference—now updated with new research, insights, and voices—learn how to create a healthy, balanced, and diverse garden capable of supporting a hard-working crew of beneficial pest-eating insects and eliminate the need for synthetic chemical pesticides . After a fascinating introduction to the predator and prey cycle and its importance to both wild ecosystems and home gardens, you'll meet dozens of pest-munching beneficial insects (the predators) that feast on garden pests (their prey). From ladybugs and lacewings to parasitic wasps and syrphid flies, these good guys of the bug world keep the natural system of checks and balances in prime working order. They help limit pest damage and... Cover 2 Title Page 3 Contents 4 Introduction: How a Horticulturist Came to Bugs 6 All About Beneficials: Who They Are, How They Work, and What They Eat 11 Beneficial Bug Profiles: Meet the Predators and the Parasitoids 54 Gardening for Bugs: Where Plants and Ins

Author

Jessica Walliser

Publisher

Cool Springs Press

Language

EN