BENEFICIAL INSECTS YOU WANT IN YOUR GARDEN
We look at some commonly found garden insects that are actually very beneficial
for your garden So let’s meet some of these friends that
you would love to have in your garden Lets start with honey bees
Honey bees play a very important role in pollinating a lot of plants fruit plants especially citrus
plants here in Southern California And in a typical Southern California garden
you will be amazed at how many Honey bees exist around citrus trees
You can see them buzzing around citrus trees like oranges, tangerines and limes
And now lets meet its cousin the Bumble bee
The Bumble bee is a much larger bee
which has a unique buzzing sound
and it pollinates a lot of vegetables like
eggplants, cucumbers and squashes
The Bumble bees are so important that a lot
of green houses actually use Bumble bees to pollinate the plants that are stored inside
green houses and as you can see they look lovey and they make a very unique buzzing
sound as they go around and pollinate all your vegetables in your garden and as long
as you don’t use pesticides in your garden you will have a lot of Bumble bees buzzing
everywhere Now lets look at Lady bugs or Lady birds
This is a very beneficial insect that preys on all the harmful insects for your plants
like aphids and some other insects as well
and Lady bugs are beautiful to look at they
come in a variety of colors and in the Spring time and Summer time you will see a lot of
Lady bugs in your garden and they would do a great job at eliminating the bad insects
from your garden and if you naturally have them that’s good if not you could head over to
your local garden store and buy some live Lady bugs as you can see here these Lady bugs
are ready to go out and feast themselves on all the bad insects like aphids, scales and
white flies and stuff
Now lets look at Earth worms
These harmless creatures are not really insects but they play a very important role in your
garden They convert a lot of organic matter into
rich humus and they also play a very important role in furrowing through your soil making
it nice and loose and adding a lot of valuable nutrients in the soil
They also digest small particles of soil like sand and then excrete them and their droppings
called worm castings are very high in nutrients They play a very important role in decomposing
your compost bin as well and converting them into worm castings and worm tea which will
add a lot of nutrients to your soil So earthworm is definitely the gardeners best friend
I hope you enjoyed this episode and i hope
you get to see a lot of these beneficial insects in your garden by not using pesticides you
will make sure these nice and beneficial insects are always there in your garden
We will see you again soon Happy gardening
