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What insects do you see most in your garden?
Or other pests....
I see mostly earwigs, which disgust me. Second most common sighting is spiders, with Black Widows leading by a wide margin. After that, slugs. There are plenty of mosquitoes, some lacebugs and sometimes scale. There are occasional ant colonies, and occasionally aphids. I never see caterpillars or Japanese Beetles (there are other beetles). Sadly, I have only seen a couple of bees this year, and a hadful of butterflies.
The only ones I actually make an effort to kill are slugs, mosquitoes, and lacebugs, and I rarely use poisons of any kind.
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Re: What insects do you see most in your garden?
usually slugs, but this year not so many. something is eating my roses (like they do every year) but I don't see what's doing it. Also, leaf miners seem to really like my columbine, but I don't see them as much as evidence they are there. the season is young though, so who knows what might pop in!
there are lots of bees in my yard, but I've planted lots of purple flowers (not sure if it's an old wives tale or not, but I thought they liked purple best). I never get many butterflies though. Mostly just moths.
Mostly, my garden pests are of a furry variety!
Since I started gardening, I've been teaching myself not to kill bugs on sight.
We have tons of spiders and worms, which I know are good. Thank goodness, black widows don't love the NW. We've found some sort of white beetle larve munch on an old tree stump, tons of ants (there are several hills in our yard), aphids, earwigs, rolly pollys, etc.
I get a lot of earthworms, ladybugs, and spiders. Lots and lots of spiders. As long as they are outside, I leave them alone.
For the bad bugs, I see snails (not really bugs...), aphids, red spider mites, and the occasional caterpillar and quite a few ants.
So far (knocking on wood), the damage from pests has been minimal but I have no vegetables growing this year, just aesthetics.
Gretchen Evie, born 7/8/2012 at 35w5d
I thought I was the only person here who DIDN'T grow food! :::fainting:::
Ants are winning by a large amount. Both carpenter and some small red kind that bites (not fire ants though). No aphids.
I'm sure mosquitoes are in full force after all the rain we've had.
The occasional garden spider.
It's too early for other pests, like cabbage worms or bean beetles.
Bees and butterflies are in full force.
I'll kill mosquitoes if they land on me. And I'll pick off cabbage worms, etc. and toss them to the birds if I see them.
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