Most common questions used to investigate
Do you wish to control aphids in your garden?
Do you wish to control beetles in your garden?
Do you wish to control cabbage worms in your garden?
Do you wish to control caterpillars in your garden?
Do you wish to control cutworms in your garden?
Do you wish to control fruit flies in your garden?
Do you wish to control grasshoppers in your garden?
Do you wish to control gypsy moths in your garden?
Do you wish to control Japanese beetles in your garden?
Do you wish to control leafhoppers in your garden?
Do you wish to control mealybugs in your garden?
Do you wish to control mites in your garden?
Do you wish to control moths in your garden?
Do you wish to control potato beetles in your garden?
Do you wish to control scale insects in your garden?
Do you wish to control slugs in your garden?
Do you wish to control squash bugs in your garden?
Do you wish to control thrips in your garden?
Do you wish to control tomato and tobacco hornworm in your garden?
Do you wish to control whiteflies in your garden?
Common conclusions
Ladybugs, spiders, aphid midges, braconid wasps, damsel bugs, green lacewings, minute pirate bugs, soldier beetles and hoverflies will control aphids.
Praying mantis will control all kinds of beetles. Attract them with tall grasses and shrubs, cosmos, marigolds, dills.
Damsel bugs will control cabbage worms. Attract them with caraway, fennel, alfalfa, spearmint, peter pan goldenrod.
Praying mantis (attracted to tall grasses and shrubs, cosmos, marigolds, dills), ground beetles (evening primrose, amaranthus, clover), braconid wasps (fern-leaf Yarrow, common yarrow, dill, lemon balm, parsley) and damsel bugs (caraway, fennel, alfalfa, spearmint, peter pan goldenrod) will control caterpillars.
Ground beetles (attracted to evening primrose, amaranthus, clover) and tachinid flies (carrots, cilantro, dill, coriander, buckwheat) will control cutworms.
Spiders (attracted to tall plants for weaving spiders and mulch for predatory spiders), will control fruit flies.
Spiders (attracted to tall plants for weaving spiders and mulch for predatory spiders), will control grasshoppers and ground beetles (attracted with evening primrose, amaranthus, clover) will control their eggs.
Tachinid flies (attracted to carrots, cilantro, dill, coriander, buckwheat) will control gypsy moths.
Tachinid flies (attracted to carrots, cilantro, dill, coriander, buckwheat) will control Japanese beetles.
Green lacewings (attracted to dill, angelica, golden marguerite, coriander, dandelion) will control leafhoppers.
Green lacewings (attracted to dill, angelica, golden marguerite, coriander, dandelion) and mealybug destroyer (fennel, dill, angelica, sunflower, goldenrod) will control mealybugs.
Ladybugs (attracted to dill, dandelion, fern-leaf yarrow, a basket of gold, common yarrow), damsel bugs (caraway, fennel, alfalfa, spearmint, peter pan goldenrod), minute pirate bugs (caraway, fennel, alfalfa, spearmint, peter pan goldenrod) and predatory mites (attracted to humid environments like greenhouses and high tunnels) will control mites
Praying mantis (attracted to tall grasses and shrubs, cosmos, marigolds, dills) will control several different types of moths.
Ground beetles (attracted to evening primrose, amaranthus, clover), ladybugs (dill, dandelion, fern-leaf yellow, a basket of gold, common yarrow) and damsel bugs (caraway, fennel, alfalfa, spearmint, peter pan goldenrod) will control potato beetles.
Hoverflies (attracted to fern-leaf yarrow, common yarrow, dill, a basket of gold, statice) will control scale insects.
Ground beetles (attracted to evening primrose, amaranthus, clover) will control slugs.
Tachinid flies (attracted to carrots, cilantro, dill, coriander, buckwheat) will control squash bugs.
Minute pirate bugs (attracted to caraway, fennel, alfalfa, spearmint, peter pan goldenrod) will control thrips.
Braconid wasps (attracted to fern-leaf yarrow, common yarrow, dill, lemon balm, parsley) will control tomato and tobacco hornworms.
Green lacewings (attracted to dill, angelica, golden marguerite, coriander, dandelion) and ladybugs (dill, dandelion, fern-leaf yellow, a basket of gold, common yarrow) will control whiteflies.
If you wish to control various soft-bodied insects, soldier beetles (attracted to goldenrod, zinnia, marigold, linden trees) will do the job.
References
https://www.organiclesson.com/beneficial-insects-garden-pest-control/
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Hi! I’m Sreten Filipović. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, with a master's degree in Environmental Protection in Agricultural Systems. I’ve worked as a researcher at Finland's Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) on a project aimed at adapting south-western Finland to drought episodes. I founded a consulting agency in the field of environment and agriculture to help farmers who want to implement the principles of sustainability on their farms. I’m also a founding member of the nonprofit organization Ecogenesis from Belgrade whose main goal is non-formal education on the environment and ecology. In my spare time, I like to write blog posts about sustainability, the environment, animal farming, horticulture, and plant protection. I’ve also published several science-fiction short stories.
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