Good Bugs

May is good time to introduce and teach your children and/or yourself the importance and difference of beneficial insects to our environment. Many times when seeing an insect our first instinct is to kill it.  Unfortunately, that kind of conditioning is not good for our earth or ourselves.  Author Robin Sweetser classifies beneficial insects as:  Pollinators, Predators and Parasitizers.  Pollinators are bees and bugs that will pollinate your flowers, trees and vegetables.  We have to have pollinators if we want to eat.  Predators are insects that eat bugs that might eat your flowers, trees and vegetables.  We need predators if we want a healthy harvest.  The praying mantis is an example of a predator.  Parasitizers are bugs that lay their eggs on the kind of bugs that like to eat your flowers, trees and vegetables.  An example of a parasitizer would be several different types of wasps.  So before you raise your foot to stomp on a bug or get out the bug spray, make yourself familiar with the good kinds.  You just might be stepping on a very beneficial insect or spraying away a valuable garden helper.

Listed below are just some examples!

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Here's a link for even more information!

https://www.almanac.com/news/gardening/gardening-advice/beneficial-insects-garden

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