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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.

Beneficial insect information

Attract animals to the garden

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

How to improve cross-pollination

 improve pollination

Thrips, tiny insects that infest plants

 thrips

Types of thrips – pests, predators and recyclers

 types of thrips

Impact of insecticides on garden butterflies and bumblebees

 Impact of insecticides on garden butterflies and bumblebees

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

 Tomato pinworm

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

 Red spider mite

Cute and generous, the common honeybee

 honey bee

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?

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

Permaculture main principles and definition

 Permaculture principles is like a flywheel building up speed

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

Bumblebee, bumbling along and heavyweight pollinator

 Bumblebee hovering near a flower