Re: JBs and big eyed bugs

Pamela, I don't know if I was the one who posted this; I know I've mentioned
stuff like this on a couple of gardening forums.  I am an organic gardener,
and one of my large perennial beds runs along one side of my vegetable
garden.  Among the many beneficial insects I have in the garden are Assassin
bugs, the largest of which is called the Wheel Bug.  I had one that lived on
my asparagus ferns all summer, eating Jap. Beetles (more accurately, sucking
the juices out of them).
I doubt you could really rid a garden of JBs by depending totally on
beneficial insects, but certainly, the more variety of flowering plants you
can provide and the less really toxic broad spectrum chemicals you use, the
more beneficial insects will move into the ecology.
Organic Gardening had an article a year or so ago listing annuals and
perennials that really attract beneficial insects.  I don't go out of my way
to grow those in particular, but among the perennials and annuals growing in
the adjacent bed are several types of Agastaches, Nepetas, Phlomis
russeliana, penstemons, day lilies, Papaver rhoeas, Callirhoe involucrata
and C. digitata, salivias, Dolichos lab lab, Clematis 'Radar Love'.  And the
bed is backed with flowering shrubs.  More flowering shrubs line another
side of the vegetable garden as well.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Weil" <ctgard@optonline.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:50 PM
Subject: JBs and big eyed bugs


>
> Awhile ago, someone wrote that the big eyed bugs in their garden were
eating
> the Jap beetles.
> And named the plants that were attracting these and other beneficial
insects
> to their garden.
> I meant to save it, but deleted it instead. (I'm not too bright
sometimes.)
> Would whoever it was please contact me with the information?
> Thank you, thank you, thank you.
> Pamela Weil
>
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