Insects

Insects are an integral part of any garden. Learning more about their life cycles, which plants they have associations with, and which ones are harmful and which are not, can create a garden for you that is more organic, allowing you to use less pesticides and save not only time and money, but help to protect our more and more fragile environment. Below are a few pages written to help you in that pursuit.

• Brugmansia, Angel Trumpet Insect Pests
• Beneficial Garden Insects
• Insect Pests and How to Eliminate them
• Controlling Pests organically
• Butterfly Gardening
• Gardening Q & A
  (Although not all about bugs, many are answered here)
Alphabetical Listings

If you already have an idea about your insect, here's a list of them and more information

• Ants, as farmers of aphids
• Aphids, organic elimination
• Aphids, How to Eliminate Them, With Chemicals
• Broad Mites
• Caterpillars, Kill with B.T. organically
• Caterpillars, Hawk, or Sphinx Moth Larvae and Adults
• Caterpillars, (small) Skipper moth
• Fireants, eliminate
• Flea beetles, Insect pest
• Fungus gnats, organic method of control
• Fungus Gnats as root worm stage
• Gnats, Fungus Life Cycle Graph
• Grubs, Rootworms
• Hawkmoth, Hornworm, Brugmansia caterpillar
• Inch worms, brown and white
• Insects, how they breathe
• Japanese beetles in grub stage
• Ladybugs, beneficial & how to attract
• Leaf beetles, info and photos
• Leafminer Control
• Mealybug pests and control
• Rootworms, Insect Pest
• Scale
• Skipper Moths and larvae as pests
• Spidermites
• Spidermites, on Brugmanisa, alternative
• Spidermite predatory mite, occidentalis
• Stink bugs, eliminate them
• Tomato Fruitworm
• Thrips
• Trips, with chemicals, read Aphid paragraph
• Weevils, Insect Pest
• Weevils, Larger Control Method
• Whiteflies, Insect Pest
• Whitefly damage on brugmansia, photo
• Whitefly Life Cycle, UCDavis Website
• Wire worms, larvae of Click bugs, root pests

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