Is it possible for gardeners to purchase beneficial insects for the home garden?
Where can they get them? Some beneficial insects are available for home gardeners, but not as many as are available overseas. Bugs for Bugs (Ph. (07) 4165-4663) sell a range of biological control agents including Trichogramma wasps for the control of butterflies and moths commercially, but also sell a selection of “good bugs” to home gardeners. These include Green Lace Wing larvae. These insects are good general predators and will eat aphids, two-spotted mites, whitefly, scale, caterpillars and moth eggs. Cryptolaemus is a native beetle that specifically eats mealy bugs and they are sold as both larvae and as adults. Bugs for Bugs also sell larvae of a native ladybird which is a scale predator. Spotted ladybirds and preying mantids are not available. Bugs for Bugs also sell fruit fly traps and sticky traps for catching flying insects. Sticky traps come in yellow (for trapping aphids and whitefly) and blue (for thrips and leaf miners.) However these traps catch all flying insects and wi
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