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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."—Newark Star-Ledger; "A fact-filled, charmingly illustrated guide."—American Bookseller. A GARDEN BOOK CLUB selection.
Developed with the assistance of entomologists, Starcher's book tells gardeners which plants and habitats attract the beneficial insects and helps them recognize them when they appear. The author's ink-and-watercolor illustrations are both accurate and infused with personality and charm. Glossary.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Chad Landen
reviewed Good Bugs for Your Garden on December 17, 2017 Good Bugs for Your Garden
A healthy garden is a balanced ecosystem. The more good bugs you have, the less bad bugs you'll have - and then you won't have to use any pesticides.
Loved the illustrations! This book will be useful for my kids too, as they will be helping me be sleuths in our garden this year to try and attract as many beneficial insects as possible to our brand new garden plot. I'll be using this book with them to help identify the bugs we find.
As a general rule it seems the best things to attract good bugs are:
1.) Avoiding monoculture (planting lots of one thing) as this makes your garden vulnerable.
2.) You want to be intermixing annual and perennial plantings. Surround and intersperse veggie plantings with perennial flowers and herbs.
3.) Keep things like wood mulch, stone paths, small water gardens to attract more variety of beneficial insects.
4.) Think flowers that have many small heads and produce a lot of nectar - like Cosmos, Dill, Cilantro, Sweet Asylum.
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