Have you ever heard about beneficial pests? Not all pests are damaging, but many other species also have advantages. For instance, many bugs and insects reside in your garden and prey upon damage-causing pests and decaying material and help in pollination.
If the problem worsens, you should hire expert Quality Affordable Pest Control to eliminate disadvantageous pests.
Following are the species found in Durham and York region during summer:
Honey Bees
Honey bees are completely docile insects, and they only attack if they feel threatened by humans or animals. Honey bees are especially famous for producing honey. It goes from flower to flower to collect nectar which is later converted into sweet honey.
Honey bees play a vital role in pollination by spreading pollens with their bodies.
Lady Bugs
Ladybugs have more than 400 species. All adults and larvae love to eat aphids or other soft-bodied pests—fun fact: they can eat 40 to 50 aphids in a day without damaging the property.
Spiders
Many spider species feed upon tiny pests in your garden or indoor plants. Moreover, they are pretty harmless for human beings. However, they sometimes eat beneficial pests too.
Wasps
Wasps typically feed multiple times in a single day. They usually live in groups and can remove all the damaging pests from your garden. Wasps’ bodies are covered in tiny hair that helps transport pollen from flower to flower.
Syrphid Flies
Commonly known as hoverflies or flower flies, Syrphid flies are small bees attracted to nectar and pollens. They play a significant role in the pollination of strawberries and raspberries.
They feed on aphids living in tight dark cracks.
Minute Pirate Bugs
Pirate bugs are beneficial because they feed upon destructive pests in your home, including aphids, spider mites, thrips, and insect eggs. They are essential for corn crops as they feed on earworm eggs.
Centipedes
Centipedes usually crawl in dark and hidden places to hunt notorious pests like moths, spiders, and cockroaches. They are considered natural pest controllers in York and Durham region.
Beetles
Ground beetles eat slugs and gypsy moth larvae, cankerworms, armyworms, cutworms, and snails.
Soldier beetle feed on grasshoppers, eggs, cucumber beetles, and caterpillars.
Lacewings
Pale green or brown lacewings are usually giant with large veined wings. Their primary food source is flower nectar. Nevertheless, they benefit us by eating scales, aphids, moth eggs, thrips, tint caterpillars, or mites.
Assassin Bugs
Assassin bugs mostly hunt several pest species like tomato hornworms, spider mites, and thrips. They are brown, black or green; however, some species are specified with brightly colored bodies.
How To Attract Beneficial Pests In Your Garden?
If you are interested in inviting beneficial pests into your garden, keep the following points.
- Do not use pesticides that can kill beneficial pests too
- Plant smelly nectar-rich flowers
- Sow herbs like fennel, dill, lavender, mint, parsley, and coriander.
- Keep the debris on plant surfaces without teasing it.
- You can also buy these beneficial insects from pest controllers easily.
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