The Benefits of Beneficials

You found us! Welcome to the wonderful world of Gardeners Beneficial Insects!

What are beneficial bugs, and why do you need them?

Anywhere you find plants, you’ll find bugs. Most people used to believe, “The only good bug is a dead bug.” So they’d spray their gardens with chemicals to kill anything that moved.

There are two big problems with this. First, chemical pesticides are bad for us and bad for the environment. Second, we’ve learned that striking a balance of bugs, both good and bad, is much better than having no bugs at all!

Survival of the Fittest

By succeeding in poisoning most of the bugs, we’ve inadvertently left a small band of survivors that reproduce and pass on resistance to these chemicals. Over time, we’ve had to use progressively higher concentrations of harmful pesticides to do the same job. The cycle continues with pests that have become harder and harder to kill.

Nature Knows Best

Today, we know that it is better to work with Mother Nature instead of against her. Almost all pests have natural enemies, which we usually call beneficial insects. Best of all, harmful pests can never build up a resistance to being eaten!

Balance is Better

Get By With a Little Help from Gardeners

Whenever you see things drifting out of balance, like discovering a hoard of aphids attacking your roses, you can give Mother Nature a little nudge by deploying some ladybugs to feast on the aphids.

Gardeners Beneficials work both above and below ground to protect your garden from harmful pests. These include predators that attack and devour pests directly, and parasites that lay eggs inside or alongside pest eggs, eliminating hatching pests before they have a chance to attack plants.

Let us introduce you to our beneficial bugs

Ladybugs

These little red polka-dotted bugs love mowing down aphids! They also devour thrips, scale, mealybugs and mites.

Ground Control Beneficial Nematodes

Nematodes are microscopic warriors that live in soil and hunt down pests before they grow up and emerge as flying destructive insects that chew holes in your plants.

Praying Mantis

Praying mantis lie in wait for those pesky insects that chew big holes in your leaves.