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Beneficial Garden Animals

7/3/2018

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Picture of wren eating a bug in Baton Rouge Louisiana
Wren eating a bug
​Have you ever seen an insect in your garden and been excited? It may sound crazy to some, but there are a number of insects and critters you want to have making a home near your garden.

Bacteria and micro organisms can be your gardening friend. Beneficial nematodes and milky spore bacteria can be purchased and added to your garden. Bacillus thuringiensis, most commonly called Bt, can control caterpillars, worms, and beetles. 

Beneficial Nematodes can control black flies, maggots, mosquitoes, grubs, yellow jackets, caterpillars and more.

Robins and wrens are species of bird which eat beetles, cutworms, and grasshoppers. Use a bird house to attract these birds to make a more permanent home near your garden. Chickens are also good at eating insects, plus you get eggs!

There are quite a few bugs that are the “good kind of bug” list. Lacewings and ladybugs love to eat scale and aphids. Hoverflies eat aphids. The live in dill and fennel plants. Praying mantis eat a large variety of insects. Parasitoid wasps sound like something on your kill on site list, but they can really help out with tomato hornworms and cabbageworms. They want to be around ground cover so plant some alyssum to attract them.

Snakes! Well, garter snakes. These snakes really help out around the garden since they eat crickets, grasshoppers, and more pests.

Toads are considered gross by a lot of people, yet they do a very good job protecting your garden from slugs and other bugs. You can buy a toad house online and put it by your garden. It will attract a personal toad security guard and give your garden some character.
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liliat
7/12/2018 08:56:45 am

Those birds on the front picture always keep me up in the early morning. They are usually chirping when I want to be sleeping.

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Sharon Thorning link
7/21/2018 03:46:01 pm

HEY!

My name is Sharon Thorning. I am contacting you in hopes of someone from your organization speaking to our Santa Maria Garden Club. We meet at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. We have taken a break this summer but will resume our meetings in September. The meeting is scheduled for September 12th and would love someone from your group to speak to us about their passion on beneficial insects, birds, reptiles, amphibians, etc. The group ranges from novice gardeners to master gardeners, but each one of us learn something new on a topic each time we meet. We do offer a small gift of a bottle wine and a small painting by one of our members. If you are someone would be willing to share their time and talent we would be most grateful. You may reach me at sthorning54@yahoo.com or my cell is 225-205-3171. Looking forward to hearing back from you!




Thanks Sharon

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