When I mention insects in the garden I bet you started to imagine all those creepy crawlies that you don't like.
- ants
- earwigs
- mealybugs
- wooly aphids
- wasps
- slaters
- harlequin beetles
- harlequin beetles

Good Insects
Well, hang on a minute there. I was actually going to talk about all the good insects that can also inhabit your garden like
Here's the secret. If you plant certain plants in your garden, they will attract the good bugs who will shoo away the bad bugs. How about that? Could it really be that easy?
Good Plants
Here's a list of these special plants. Search them out in your garden centre or mail order catalogue.
These plants will attract lacewings. Lacewings prey on aphids. Aphids attack your roses.
These plants attract ladybugs.
These plants attract hoverflies
Well, hang on a minute there. I was actually going to talk about all the good insects that can also inhabit your garden like
- lacewings
- hoverflies and
- ladybugs
Here's the secret. If you plant certain plants in your garden, they will attract the good bugs who will shoo away the bad bugs. How about that? Could it really be that easy?
Good Plants
Here's a list of these special plants. Search them out in your garden centre or mail order catalogue.
These plants will attract lacewings. Lacewings prey on aphids. Aphids attack your roses.
- yarrow - Achillea millefolium
- golden rod - Solidago virgaurea
- chamomile - Chamaemelum nobile
These plants attract ladybugs.
- yarrow - Achillea millefolium
- calendula, also called pot marigolds - Calendula officinalis
These plants attract hoverflies
- yarrow - Achillea millefolium
- lovage - Levisticum officinale
- dill - Anethum graveolens
- sweet cicely - Myrrhis odoratum
- fennel - Foeniculum officinale
- golden rod - Solidago virgaurea
- centaury - Centaurium erythraea
You can see from the lists above that your first purchase can be yarrow and golden rod. This will be a good start to attracting all these insects into your garden.