Organic Pest Control - Encouraging Natural Predators
by John Yazo
Natures diverse community of insects and predators can be the answer you are looking for when coming up with a plan on controlling the pests in your organic garden. Arachnids, like spiders and mite along with parasitic insects and predatory insects all are a part of the diverse community of life that exists in your gardens naturally, and they are a very important part of your gardens.
Beneficial insects play a very important role in your gardens everyday without you even knowing it. They are an active part in many plants reproduction, by spreading pollen, while others feed on or paralyze pests that cause destruction to your crops. Two of the most common beneficial insects around the garden are the honey bee and the ladybug. Out of all the insects that are common around your yard and gardens, about 90 percent of them most likely are beneficials.
Birds are another form of wildlife that is a very beneficial predator, and among the most efficient. Planting trees and shrubs, along with a source of fresh water, among your landscape and gardens to provide a source of food and shelter will encourage them to call your garden home.
Another great beneficial that you don't want to forget is the toad. A simple little shelter, like some rocks or even a turned over plant pot with a small opening for them to enter, along with a source of water will keep them around working hard for you consuming the cutworms, slugs, and other pests that dwell in the soil of your gardens.
Beneficial predators are a great, natural method of controlling the pests that can destroy the gardens you work so hard on to keep thriving. Nature has it's own methods of keeping everything in balance, just a little simple planning to provide a source of shelter, food and water for the wildlife that exists in your area can provide you with rewards that only nature can provide.
Now, lets don't forget the soil that your plants grow in. Most think of soil as just being needed to grow plant life, there is a lot more to soil than that. There is a very complex community of life that lives in soil naturally and keeping this live happy and healthy is very important. There are many organisms and microorganisums that exist in soil, and when supplied with a fuel source of organic matter they will continuously work hard for you keeping the pests that harbor in soils in balance.
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