Important Beneficial Insects
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to the show. Hope you're doing well today. Hope you're having a good time in the garden. |
| 0:06.6 | Wherever you are in the world listening to this, hello. All right today. We're back with McKay, |
| 0:12.8 | and it's our last episode with her, |
| 0:14.9 | and I figured why not shift the conversation just slightly. |
| 0:18.3 | We've done a lot about bees. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's talk about some other beneficials in the garden |
| 0:22.8 | and why we would want to cultivate those. |
| 0:25.4 | Because when you have this entire ecosystem at work, |
| 0:29.1 | it really is a beautiful thing. |
| 0:30.4 | A lot of the tasks that a normal gardener is going to have to do are getting deleted by mother |
| 0:35.5 | nature. So your bees are doing your pollination. Some of your beneficials are eating the bugs. |
| 0:40.5 | Maybe they're eating some of the weeds. It really is an amazing thing if you can cultivate it. |
| 0:45.8 | And so we're going to talk about a few of those things that you may want to have in your garden. |
| 0:51.5 | Let's just give some people a little more information. Bees, as we said, they aren't the only |
| 0:56.4 | pollinators out there in the world. What are some other insects that we should be trying to cultivate in our garden, |
| 1:02.2 | maybe buying in, like you you said the ladybugs but |
| 1:04.8 | what are some things that if we see them we shouldn't be worried we shouldn't be |
| 1:08.3 | freaked out we should actually be happy yeah for sure I mean there are so many good insects to be and living in your garden. |
| 1:16.3 | A lot of people, again, they just kind of have that fear of the unknown and if they see something, |
| 1:21.3 | they just automatically kill it. |
| 1:23.0 | But so even spiders can be really great for your garden |
| 1:27.0 | because they're catching all the things that are, |
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