Beneficial Insects mean Free Garden Help and Fewer Pesticides
Online, July 12, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Today's smart gardeners want easy-care gardens, but without the dangers of pesticides. Many different beneficial insects are ready and willing to work in the garden, eliminating pests like aphids, mosquitoes, or cutworms (to name just a few).
A handy new downloadable booklet, "Good Bugs: Hire a Beneficial Insect" (AnswerGirls $1) gives information about the common species of insect helpers and how to attract them to your garden. It is available exclusively from www.AnswerGirls.com.
Tachinid Flies, for example, are attracted to a garden by planting dill, lemon balm, parsley, Queen Anne's lace or spearmint. The adult fly lays eggs inside host insects, such as cutworms, borers, stink bugs, codling moths, tent caterpillars and gypsy moths. When the eggs hatch, the larvae grow inside the host insect, killing it. Considering that one Tachinid Fly can lay up to 6000 eggs during its 3-week life span, that's a powerful foe against insect pests!
Beneficial insects decrease the need for pesticides.
"Recent studies have shown that some pesticide residues have a much longer lifespan than previously thought. And while scientists simply do not know the very long-term effects of some everyday garden chemicals, other common brands have been banned for health safety reasons, often after decades on the market. This meant years of exposure for those who'd assumed they were safe to use."
To learn more about this easy way to make a garden safer for people, pets and wildlife, download "Good Bugs: Hire A Beneficial Insect" at www.AnswerGirls.com/garden1.html.
