Naturally Controlling Bugs In Your Garden

Bugs can eat up a garden and your hard work. However, there are some natural ways that you can reduce the bugs in your garden. One way of course is to squish them yourself or knock them into a cup of water with some soap or oil.

One of my favorite ways to get rid of bad bugs is with good bugs. Ladybugs and Praying Mantis bugs eat bad bugs in your garden. You can actually order these bugs for your garden. We are planning on order Praying Mantis bugs this year to help control our bug problems.

A quick note about lady bugs. Make sure that your ladybug is a ladybug. There are bean beetles that look a lot like ladybugs when you see them in their adult stage. If you are growing beans and think that you see ladybugs on them, take a look around your plants. Make sure that you don’t see bright yellow baby beetle bugs. The bean beetle goes through several stages. You will see bright yellow eggs on the bottom of your leaves. Then it will form a tiny yellow slug looking bug. Then it will turn into a bright yellow beetle before turning into a bean beetle that looks like a ladybug.

We made this mistake last year and thought that the bean beetles were ladybugs and let them live. They quickly took over. We won’t make that mistake again though. You can tell a difference between them after you have seen thousands of them. (-:

Also, if you can attract toads to your garden; they can be very beneficial. Toads eat lots of insects and will even eat slugs.

Slugs hide during the day under pieces of wood. If you have a slug problem, you can turn over pieces of wood that you might have in your garden during the day, and kill the slugs on the bottom of the wood.

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