Kitchen Garden

PREDATORS ON YOUR PLOT

FRIENDLY PREDATORS

A healthy garden isa complex system with many interactions hanging in the balance. As gardeners, we’re often concerned with the balance between ‘pests’, the creatures that eat our garden plants, and ‘predators’, the creatures that eat the pests and keep them under control.

Insects playa huge role in maintaining this balance and it’s useful to learn to recognise some of these key predators so you can protect and nurture them. Beyond the insect world, there are many other creatures that predate on insect pests.A brood

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