Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, Revised and Updated Second Edition (eBook)

A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Jessica Walliser (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 2. Auflage
208 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-7172-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This revised and updated edition of Jessica Walliser's award-winning Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden offers a valuable and science-backed plan for bringing balance back to the garden.With this indispensable gardening referencenow updated with new research, insights, and voiceslearn how to create a healthy, balanced, and diverse garden capable of supporting a hard-working crew of beneficial pest-eating insectsandeliminate the need for synthetic chemical pesticides.After a fascinating introduction to the predator and prey cycle and its importance to both wild ecosystems and home gardens, you'll meet dozens of pest-munching beneficial insects (the predators) that feast on garden pests (their prey). From ladybugs and lacewings to parasitic wasps and syrphid flies, these good guys of the bug world keep the natural system of checks and balances in prime working order. They help limit pest damage and also serve a valuable role in the gardens food web. But, they wont call your garden home if you dont have the resources they need to survive.With a hearty population of beneficial insects present in your garden, you'll say goodbye to common garden pests like aphids, cabbage worms, bean beetles, leafhoppers, and hornworms, without reaching for a spray can. To encourage these good guys to stick around and do their important work, youll learn how to create a welcoming habitat and fill your garden with the best plants to support them.Inside you'll find:Bug profiles introducing dozens of beneficial insects and the down-and-dirty details on howthey catch and eat their preyPlant profiles featuring the best plants for supporting beneficialsInterviews with entomologists who focus their lifes work on understanding the value of insects, including Doug Tallamy, Paula Shrewsbury, Leslie Allee, Dan Herms, and othersAn inspiring look at how plants and insects intersect in the most incredible waysWhy gardening for bugs is just as important to the greater world as it is to your gardenTips for creating insectary plantings and borders to support a broad range of beneficialsThe acclaimed first edition of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden ushered in a new way to garden; one that appreciates and understands of the power of returning a natural balance to the garden. This revised and updated edition continues to herald and expands on that same important message.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: aphids • Bad • beetle banks • Beneficial Insects • best plants for • biocontrol • biodiversity • Biological Control • cabbageworms • caterpillars • chemical free • climate change • companion planting • Design • Disease • Diversity • dragonfly • Earth Day • eco-friendly • entomologist • Entomology • exotic pests • Expert • farmscaping • fireflies • garden plans • good bugs • Green • homesteading • insectary garden • Intercropping • interplanting • invasive insects • lacewings • ladybugs • landscape management • minute pirate bug • native plants • Natural enemies • Organic Gardening • Parasitic wasps • Parasitoids • permaculture • pest control • Pest management • plant partners • plant profiles • pollinator plants • Polyculture • praying mantis • predator and prey cycle • Research • responsible • science-based • spidermites • syrphid flies • tachinid fly • trap cropping • Whiteflies
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-7172-5 / 0760371725
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-7172-5 / 9780760371725