Many bugs in our garden are actually meant to be there and in fact we want them to be there.

Most people think that any bug is a pest or most bugs are pests, but in fact most bugs are not.

Most bugs are either benign, no positive or negative impact, or they're positive.

They're beneficial, right?

So in today's episode, we're talking about seven of them,

little rapid-fire quick-hit episode for you to do some further research to

inspire you to dig a little deeper. Let's talk about number one. Green lay swings. These are the

aphid killers of the world. They're a very delicate looking slender light green

insect. They like to either eat the honey dew, which is a sugary substance that aphids secrete,

or they actually will pierce into the aphid itself.

So they can do a lot of damage to aphids.

You want those in your garden.

Ground beetles, diverse, plenty of

plenty of species of these, but they like to forage after dark and they will eat

caterpillars, grubs, slugs, snails, they do a lot of damage.

They're quite large, and so they can eat a large volume of pests in the garden.

My favorite on the list, number three, is hoverflies.

These guys, as the name implies, just kind of float there and then they dart from one place to another, kind of like a hummingbird. They have two wings, bees and wasps have four wings, so they are a fly, and they will lay eggs in aphids, white flies,

other soft-bodied pests, so they're a fantastic beneficial.

Next you have the entire family of parasitic wasps. These guys do some serious damage

and they can lay eggs again in your garden pests so a really good thing to have.

Of course you have Lady Beatles also known as Lady Bogs. These guys eat up

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