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Organic Gardening Beetles : Keep Your Garden Pest Free, Naturally!

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Organic pest control works with the help of natural agents and not chemical means such as pesticides or insecticides. The staple diets of many insects as well as bacteria are pests, which is why these predators can be used to protect your garden naturally. Whereas using chemical pesticides and synthetic products harms the garden as well as the fauna in the soil too, some of these natural predators can prove to be very useful for plant growth in your garden.

These insects and bacteria practically serve the same purpose as chemical pesticides and synthetic products, and sometimes even more, without any of the harmful side effects or off shoots of the latter. Some organic bacteria and insects provide protection against specific organic garden pests, while others can be utilized in a more generalized manner for a greater number of pests. Organic gardening beetles are your best friends when it comes to eliminating pests - some acting as predators of specific pathogen while other beetles eating various pests and protecting your organic garden in a natural and effective manner.

The lady beetle, lady bird or lady bug, which ever name you call it by, is a predator of numerous and varied amounts of pests such as aphids, mites and mealy bugs. In their larval stage itself, they manage to consume twenty to thirty aphids on a daily basis. In adulthood too, this voracious appetite characterizes the lady bug, as its appetite doubles. In hot weather, lady bugs reproduce many times over. Lady bugs are available in organic gardening beetle packets of ten thousand each. Once all the insects have been consumed, these lady beetles rapidly migrate, so just release only a few at a time so as not to risk losing the whole lot at once.

They should ideally be released at the base of the plant that has been infected on a fortnightly or a three weekly basis. Another great glutton is the praying mantis, who is of the grasshopper family. Its swift and powerful legs are used to prey upon unsuspecting pests, catch them and devour them. The praying mantis immediately hunts down flies and aphids and consumes them. It has been known to attack beetles, caterpillars, aphids, lizards and frogs.

The praying mantises come in golf ball sized egg cases, which hatch to produce about four hundred insects in a matter of very few days. For your average garden, get about two to three egg cases. Other useful natural predators include lacewing larvae and a bacterium known as the Milky Disease Spores. All these natural pesticides are easily available at organic gardening supply stores anywhere.

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