6 Beneficial Insects For Garden Pest Control [Infographic]

The summer months are fast approaching, and garden pests that have been overwintering will again be targeting your prize flower gardens, ornamental plants, and crops as a food source. But despite this fact, you can fight back with an old practice that has been around for some time and is used by many garden enthusiast to encourage certain insect species into their gardens and landscapes that will eliminate garden pests by using them as a food source. These groups of insects are known as beneficial insects that protect garden plants from garden insect pests by using the bad bugs as a food source. This safe practice to manage garden pests is known as biological control. Many of these insects are hard at work to ensure that our gardens thrive, we will be looking at six of these good guys who have proven to keep our gardens and landscapes safe. We will also be looking at what plant spices attract them to our garden so you can incorporate some of these plants that will attract some of these beneficial insects to your garden like a magnet.