Beneficial insects like bugs and bees fight insects and pests.
With these tips and products you can increase the incidence of insects in the garden.
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They are pest fighters, snail hunters and pollinators - beetles, bees and Co. are among the useful insects in the garden.
There are certainly many helpful tips on how you can encourage the occurrence of beneficial insects in the garden at home.
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With the following tips and products you will soon have more useful helpers in the garden.
These beneficial insects live in your garden
Bees
Hornets
Bumblebees
Dragonflies
Lacewing
Ladybug
Catchy tunes
Predatory bugs
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1. Plant native shrubs and trees!
Many non-native conifers resulted in a reduction in the number of insects, as the portal
My beautiful garden
writes.
Native shrubs and trees are more beneficial
: hawthorn, elder, sloe or oak are home to over 400 different species of insects.
Hawthorn is a picturesque large shrub that is not only eye-catching, but can also be very useful.
Order hawthorn now for 4.95 euros!
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Experts consider hawthorn to be an insect-friendly plant.
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2. Use gentle pesticides!
If you want to control pests and snails in your garden, you should use pesticides
that do not harm the beneficial insects
.
Beneficial insects should be spared so that they can multiply.
Herbal manure and broths are ideal alternatives to chemical pesticides.
3. It depends on the flowers!
When the garden is in bloom and brightly colored, every garden owner is happy.
But flowers like roses, peonies and other bedding plants have blooms that are too densely filled.
The result: These plants are useless for useful insects such as bees, bumblebees and the like.
Therefore, look out for
simple flowers with only one wreath of petals
.
4. Promote ladybugs!
Ladybugs are one of the very useful insects in your garden.
Her favorite foods are aphids!
Adult ladybugs will eat several thousand lice in their lifetime.
You can even encourage ladybugs, because the beetles need winter quarters to hibernate.
Therefore, make a
pile of leaves or buy a ladybug house
.
Wildtier Herz's
ladybird house
is untreated, weatherproof and made of solid wood.
Order now: Ladybug house made of solid wood for 27.90 euros!
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wild animal heart ladybug house
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5. Create a pond in the garden!
Anyone who owns a large garden will sooner or later think about a garden pool or pond.
A pond not only enhances the appearance of the garden,
it is vital for useful insects
.
Water beetles and water bugs spend their entire lives in the pond, dragonflies live in the water for up to five years in the larval stage.
But a pond is also very helpful for other insects.
Bees, bumblebees, butterflies and hover flies use the pond as a drinking place.
But: fish are natural enemies of insects.
If you want to encourage beneficial insects, you should avoid fish.
With a raised pond made of gabions, you can create an oasis in your garden.
Order now: bellissa high pond made of gabions for 154.99 euros!
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bellissa gabions high pond
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6. A flower meadow for useful animal species
A
lush flower meadow
is far more useful than a short-cut lawn!
The flowers attract bees, butterflies, skies and the like.
The ground is populated by beetles, millipedes and other insects.
Articulated animals ensure good soil and flower pollination.
But these insects are also food for birds, which are also important pest fighters.
7. Make a home for wild bees!
Wild bees are extremely important for pollination,
without bees the fruit and vegetable harvest would be much smaller
.
Many bees are loners and build their own brood tubes for the offspring.
Support the wild bees and buy or build a wild bee hotel.
Wildlife Friend's insect hotel is untreated and has a metal roof.
The natural wood house is for bees, ladybugs, lacewings and butterflies.
The wild bee hotel is suitable for hanging.
Order now: Wildlife Friend Wildbienenhotel for 29.90 euros!
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Wildlife Friend Wild bee hotel
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8. Bring life to life with a compost heap!
The
value of compost heaps is well known:
they provide valuable soil for our raised beds and are also habitat for many endangered insect species.
These beneficial insects play a large part in the conversion of the organic material and do a great deal of decomposition work.
With a weatherproof thermal composter, you can turn kitchen and garden waste into fertile food for plants and insects.
Composting is accelerated by the thermal function and air circulation.
Order now: Thermo composter for 36.49 euros!
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Weatherproof thermal composter.
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9. Leave the leaves under the trees!
If you have trees in your garden, you inevitably have leaves in autumn.
Leave the leaves under the trees
and provide a protective shelter for many small insects.
Many ladybugs overwinter in the foliage.
If the foliage remains, the useful soil dwellers will thank you by later decomposing the foliage and transforming it into valuable humus.
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