What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back again with

Jessica Walliser, the Plant and Bug Queen. The author of attracting beneficial

bugs to your garden, a natural approach to pest control.

Yesterday we talked about planning for the bugs and how to evaluate a plant through the lens of a bug

and not through the lens necessarily of you as a person.

And today we're going to talk about what are some of those bugs that we need to consider,

which is a pretty interesting topic because like I said yesterday I think a lot of us

understand our pests pretty well and we understand at least a handful of our pollinators

but there are there's an entire swath of bugs that we probably just don't consider or don't even know what they are.

And that's what Jessica's going to talk about today.

So hey, Jessica, welcome back.

Well, thanks, Kevin, and I prefer Bug Babe to Bug bug queen so just for future reference.

Yeah it feels better to it rolls off the tongue better I think too.

It does right and Queen sort of you know intimates that I might be of a certain age and

I definitely don't want to go there.

So let's go with Bade.

Let's stick with that.

Anyway, so yeah, you're right.

And you know, lots of people, let's say, you know,

what a classic example of a ladybug looks like right probably from the time

you're nine months old right we picture I say ladybug you in your head picture a

red dome-shaped insect with black spots right right? And you would recognize one if you saw one, but did you know that there's

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