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Beneficial Bugs!
Did you know, your garden is an important refuge for wildlife and can be an amazing place to watch it?
Your garden will be packed full of mini beasts, not as big maybe as animals you see in the Serengeti but, the raw action will be just the same!
Imagine the scene. Herbivores, quietly grazing, some cunningly camouflaged to avoid detection. Hungry predators prowling, waiting for the chance to pounce. Then, the carnivore rushes in to seize its prey! What Drama!
The only difference is… it’s scaled down a bit!
Through the summer this scene is played out every day. Ladybirds, lacewings and ground beetles are voracious hunters and tend to eat the more harmful creatures that blight our gardens.
If we can encourage these animals to our garden, we can benefit and so will our environment. We can encourage pollinators too. Bees and butterflies will help our flowers bloom and their presence in the garden adds other dimensions of sound, colour and movement!
NDCCS have some useful information to help you get these beneficial bugs into your gardens, plus some helpful links to other web sites which will help your wildlife garden!
Dowload the following factsheets to help identify and provide homes for Bugs!
- Fact sheet 1
(110KB - pdf help) - Fact Sheet 2 (116KB - pdf help)
- Fact Sheet 3 (89KB - pdf help)
- Fact Sheet 4 (186KB - pdf help)
- How to Build a Bee Box (113KB - pdf help)
- How to make a Lacewing Chamber (83KB - pdf help)
- How to Make a Lacewing & Ladybird Box (89KB - pdf help)
Useful links
