Friday, 29 May 2009

• 16 Good bugs for your garden

  

  Butterfly, ladybug and assassin bug© Corbis and Getty Images

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  16 bugs gardeners should love

  By Marilyn Lewis of MSN Real Estate

  You’re not alone in your garden. Thousands of spiders, flies, beetles, worms, bees and other small creatures are laboring, usually quietly, alongside you. Their presence is a gardener’s gift. Repay it by avoiding nonorganic pesticides, says W.M. Hood, professor of entomology at Clemson University in South Carolina. “If you have to use some of the bad pesticides, do it late in the evening when they are not foraging,” he says. “Some of the effects will have worn off by the next day.”

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