Raised Vegetable Garden

If you have an organic vegetable garden you are well aware of the insects that harm your crops. Just as there are bad insects there are good insects too. These good insects help to eliminate the harmful insects in your raised vegetable garden. There are some insects that are neither harmful or beneficial as well. Let’s take a look at the different good garden insects.

Beneficial Garden Insects:

1. Ladybugs – Feed on aphids, insect eggs and mites
2. Lacewings – Eat aphids, insect eggs and mites
3. Praying Mantids – Eat many insects (we have several in our garden)
4. Predatory Mites – Eat spider mites
5. Ambush Bugs – Eat any insect they can capture
6. Ground Beetles – Eat caterpillars, cutworms and army worms
7. Tachnid Flies – Eat many different kinds of larvae

You can purchase most of these insects for your raised vegetable garden either online or at your local gardening center.

Some bugs are mobile and might not stay so if you are purchasing ladybugs for example you should first lightly water your vegetable garden and then release them right at sunset. This will encourage the ladybugs to settle in for the night and mostly make your organic vegetable garden their new home.