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The insects attracted to the insectary plants will also help the other nearby garden plants. Many members of the family Apiaceae (formerly known as Umbelliferae) are excellent insectary plants. Fennel , angelica , coriander (cilantro), dill , and wild carrot all provide in great number the tiny flowers required by parasitic wasps.
Ants in the Plants (1940) - ants in a Fleischer Color Classics short; Antz (1998) - ants and others; Bee Movie (2007) - bees and others; James and the Giant Peach (1996) - grasshopper, centipede, spider, others; Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen (2007) - spiders; Bugs in Love (1932) - lovebugs in a Disney Silly Symphonies short
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Companion planting of carrots and onions. The onion smell puts off carrot root fly, while the smell of carrots puts off onion fly. [1]Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of a number of different reasons, including weed suppression, pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial insects, maximizing use of space ...
Just 2% of Earth's 1 million known insect species are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Here are 10 that can damage your vegetable gardens.
1911 The Strength and Agility of Insects by F. Percy Smith; 1911 La vita delle farfalle by Roberto Omegna and Guido Gozzano; 1960 Secrets of the Ant and Insect World from Walt Disney's 1956 Secrets of Life [1] 1996 Microcosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou is a record of detailed interactions between insects and other small invertebrates.
A variety of predatory insects: The flowers of the parsnip plant left to seed will attract a variety of predatory insects to the garden, they are particularly helpful when left under fruit trees, the predators attacking codling moth and light brown apple moth. Peas: Pisum sativum: Turnip, [44] cauliflower, [44] garlic, [44]
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, a paraphyletic group which Apocrita (wasps, bees and ants) evolved from), and flies . Some beetles also exhibit this behavior.