I've discovered that at night when i go outside, the ground sparkles. Most of those sparkles are the eyes of spiders! They must love me to protect my garden like that for me! 😉
If you could figure out what to plant to attract a beneficial insect that would kill squash bugs your channel would go to a million subscribers overnight.
🤣🤣 Parasitic wasps and Tachinid flies are a nature predator of these punks... but, because they release a odor, most insects leave them alone. Planting a trap crop would be recommended, plant it 50' or more away from any other sqaushs. I always have a bowel of soapy water handy, so when I see them, I put them in a bath. 💯🤣
Morning & evening stealth missions with 2 tablespoons of Castile soap mixed with a gallon of water in my sprayer keeps them at bay for me. But yea, some beneficials on them would be greeeeat! 🪲
Being a gardener for so many years I don't fear bees so sometimes it surprises me when I see someone be so terrified of them (well other than if someone was allergic that's different.) Most bees people see are the solitary types and rarely will care about people. Unless you're around honey bees, they are territorial and easily feel threatened. I recently went to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and saw all the salvias covered in bees. I'm going to start some from seed soon hoping to have it flowering next year. I'm trying to focus on more spring flowering perennials. A way to encourage ladybugs to come around and lay eggs is keeping aphids around. Last year when my cucumbers were dying from the heat, they started to get infested with aphids. I almost pulled them out but since I didn't need the space right away I wanted to seed if they attracted lady bugs. It wasn't long before I saw them covered in ladybug larvae.
I did that same thing last year with a very productive cuke plant... it got overrun with aphids, and I just left them alone. Before long, I had ladybugs all over it. I love bees in the garden, they just make me feel like I'm really growing stuff when they're around. 🤗🤗
@@DownHomeBackyardGardening New subscriber here. My wife and I love your channel. I have gardened since gradeschool (1960s), and have learned a lot since those days. Yours is one of a few channels where I actually learn something new. Thanks! Regarding Black Widows, they are like bees, in that they are docile, and not concerned about us. However, their toxicity level being what it is, I do understand your position. That said, here in our AZ yard and garden, we leave them alone. Orb weavers are another beneficial spider.
Very informative video. I like the pictures; they are great. I’m going to be more diligent this summer to identify the insects. I don’t want to ‘do in’ any of the beneficials. Thank you!!
I always grow comfrey, borage, dill, cilantro, milkweed and allow at least a few onions, carrots and celery go to seed to attract beneficial insects. This year I planted a bunch of yarrow and some bee balm to up the game. Marigolds are a staple in my garden also. One of the most rewarding aspect to gardening in my opinion is all the nature a garden can support. I also have 4 butterfly bushes, cardinal climbers, trumpet vines and morning glories planted for the butterflies and hummingbirds. I have yet to be stung out in the garden, bees and wasps have more important things to do. Nice video, Stay Well!!! New Subscriber
I'm a beekeeper and honey bees don't get aggressive or sting unless they feel like their hive is in danger. In general lol. So yea, they tend to not mind you next to them in the garden.
I love bees :) Ever since I started a garden, I found out how friendly they really are :) I harvest right next to them and they never bother me, they've come to check me out, then just go on to their pollinating ;)
Something I learned from Penn and Teller, bees won't sting you unless you crush them. They did a bit where Teller had a mouth full of bees and not one sting.
Artichokes have attracted so many bees of all kinds. I grew them because my husband likes them marinated, but he ended up not liking the ones i cooked lol. I left the plant because it's cool looking and it comes back every year.
I love bees! 😊 African blue basil is one of the best plants to attract bees. This basil will still produce even when it is blooming. Now paper wasps are another story! I’ve been stung three times recently and it is TERRIBLE! I never used to be afraid of wasps but now I am! Two of the times I was stung I didn’t do anything to antagonize them. I was just near one of their nests but I wasn’t harassing them. 😮
I give wasps a very wide berth, and if I see a hive, they die. I won't have that in my backyard where my daughter and dog go out to. Unless the hive is up high, then, I don't care. I'll have to look up what a paper wasp looks like, I'm not familiar with that type. 🤔🤔 I'm sorry you've been stung, 💯😞
I’m so tired of spraying chemicals in my garden. This year I switched to natural control, putting ladybugs, lacewings, and cucumeris in my garden. My flowers and berries are thriving, and I don’t have to worry about infestation of aphids, thrips and mites. 😊😊😊
I have stones of wolf Spiders, I also have brown recluse and all you name, I have a bunch of sticky things inside the house to catch them when they are inside. But in my garden I don't care.
This was definitely a very informative video that's full of information that I personally can use, even though those bugs were very, very creepy looking to Me!
Awesome video! Definitely sharing and rewatching. I think I've got most of those plants and beneficials. They don't survive once they come in the house.... I live with three men: husband and two sons. Nope! Bug be gone is their motto.... Me? I do catch and release😊.
🤣🤣 I'm not a fan of bugs in the house, but I try to always catch and release them back outside when I can. But, normally, my cat gets to them first 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Those long skinny black and yellow wasp looking things will sting. Had one follow me into the garage and stung me behind my right ear. Wow. Will say though, out of hundreds of different bees and wasp around the yard, i only got stung once.
Great list! I'd add in Wheel Bug. I found one on my sunflowers last year. They were eating the leaf-footed bugs. They are in the assassin bug family, and they are fascinating! I have an army of wolf spiders in my garden and I love them. They seem to keep the scorpion population down. I'm in Texas Zone 9a/b. :D I'm really enjoying your channel. Thank you!
I've never heard of the wheel bug, but will research it... thank you for the comment, and the support. Thankfully, I don't have scorpions here, but I do have more than enough black widows. 🤦♂️
Only thing I ever had attack me was a bumblebee! I think I got too close and didn’t see it until it was too late! It was rough and I’m sure very funny to see! 🤦🏼♀️ But the bees and even the wasp, which we have lots of around here, don’t really ever bother me. The wasp love okra! They seem to be nearly drugged while eating around on it. I can move slowly and still pick okra with no issue! It’s wild to see! 😂
I've been stung at one point in life by probably bees or wasp you can imagine... I HATE yellow jackets. When I first started gardening, I hated the red wasps, but I've seen them eating catapillars and even pollinating flowers, so... now, they're a guest in the garden, as long as they leave me alone. 🤣🤣
Once again...Great Job and thanks for the pictures and information. Wish you had mentioned lizards in the garden. Also, any advice on how to keep away those tiny legging bugs that like to sting tomatoes? The mature ones look like what we used to call "stink bugs" and the little ones are usually orange and travel in packs. I do the soapy water and shake them off but I have had tons of them before.
They have a nature predator in parasitic wasps, but because they give off an odor, most insects stay away from them. The soapy water dead bath is how I handle them. I have lizards everywhere, absolutely love having them in the garden.
Great video, and thanks for showing pics! I am looking for color charts of beneficial bugs and a separate one of bad garden insects that I can post at my back door for quick and easy reference. If anyone knows who sells them, please let me know!
I would love to see you do a video of the "bad" bugs, especially the beetles that look like lady beetles! I gad no idea there were so many varieties of lady beetles!
I can’t really identity the difference between the brown spiders so I just eliminate all, except daddy long legs. I guess I can identify a spider after all. 😻
Hey, man. New subscriber, here, since I am ENJOYING your knowledge sharing! I think I spaced out when you were talking about basil as a defense plant. Do you let that plant flower like the carrots and dill--or not? I am about to put a bunch of it out there.
I have a baby praying mantis this year living on my plumeria plant. Maybe the dill or marigolds brought him in but he’s welcome. Thanks for the great video!
My wasps are top gun fliers, man, those wasps fly circles around Anything. They kinda look like they’re just floating around until they start hunting, then it’s all about flying in and out of leaves. I’ve seen my wasps fly in and out of a pepper plant in a minute, checking out every leaf.
I live in Virginia and until probably 3 years ago, we had never seen an assassin bug. We took a picture and went to Facebook What is this thing?😂 We have praying mantis, and we have alot of black widows and wolf spiders. Orb spiders are pretty cool too.
We get horrible Japanese Beetles up here in the Finger Lakes and wine country here in NY, any suggestions on how to keep them away? They can eat all the leaves off of my plants in a matter of days.
I've been asked about them... all I have found in research are those traps. Hang them 100' from your crops is what I've read about them. I'm sorry you're dealing with them. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
We use those traps every year and place them in multiple places around the garden, they work but not well enough. They also lay their eggs in your soil and they grow to chew off and eat the roots of your plants. If I hear of anything else that can help with this problem. Also I planted a specific kind of large sunflowers that attract Japanese Beatles and Stink bugs.. not sure if that is what everyone calls them.
@rebeccagray2591 yes, trap crops was the other thing I read... for the grubs, I always check the beds in winter, it's the only time I'll dig into the beds looking for them. 🤦♂️
Not nonsense, they will do that... biggest thing is to identify the catapillars that become certain butteryflies... and if you like them, plant a sacrificial crop for them... that's one reason I plant alot of dill. 👍
I've discovered that at night when i go outside, the ground sparkles. Most of those sparkles are the eyes of spiders! They must love me to protect my garden like that for me! 😉
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If you could figure out what to plant to attract a beneficial insect that would kill squash bugs your channel would go to a million subscribers overnight.
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Parasitic wasps and Tachinid flies are a nature predator of these punks... but, because they release a odor, most insects leave them alone.
Planting a trap crop would be recommended, plant it 50' or more away from any other sqaushs. I always have a bowel of soapy water handy, so when I see them, I put them in a bath. 💯🤣
Morning & evening stealth missions with 2 tablespoons of Castile soap mixed with a gallon of water in my sprayer keeps them at bay for me. But yea, some beneficials on them would be greeeeat! 🪲
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I love seeing spiders in the garden 💚🕷️💚 great video 😊Thank you
Being a gardener for so many years I don't fear bees so sometimes it surprises me when I see someone be so terrified of them (well other than if someone was allergic that's different.) Most bees people see are the solitary types and rarely will care about people. Unless you're around honey bees, they are territorial and easily feel threatened. I recently went to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and saw all the salvias covered in bees. I'm going to start some from seed soon hoping to have it flowering next year. I'm trying to focus on more spring flowering perennials.
A way to encourage ladybugs to come around and lay eggs is keeping aphids around. Last year when my cucumbers were dying from the heat, they started to get infested with aphids. I almost pulled them out but since I didn't need the space right away I wanted to seed if they attracted lady bugs. It wasn't long before I saw them covered in ladybug larvae.
I did that same thing last year with a very productive cuke plant... it got overrun with aphids, and I just left them alone. Before long, I had ladybugs all over it.
I love bees in the garden, they just make me feel like I'm really growing stuff when they're around. 🤗🤗
@@DownHomeBackyardGardening New subscriber here. My wife and I love your channel. I have gardened since gradeschool (1960s), and have learned a lot since those days. Yours is one of a few channels where I actually learn something new. Thanks!
Regarding Black Widows, they are like bees, in that they are docile, and not concerned about us. However, their toxicity level being what it is, I do understand your position. That said, here in our AZ yard and garden, we leave them alone. Orb weavers are another beneficial spider.
@boomer3150 Thank you for that comment, and the support. You totally made me smile. 🙃
Welcome to the channel🤗🤗
@@DownHomeBackyardGardening Thank you!
Very informative video. I like the pictures; they are great. I’m going to be more diligent this summer to identify the insects. I don’t want to ‘do in’ any of the beneficials. Thank you!!
Russian sage is great for bees too
Very helpful information! Thanks!
I love it
Thank you for the video 😊
I got stung in the butt while mowing. 2022. Its super uncommon to get stung, thankfully 😆
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I always grow comfrey, borage, dill, cilantro, milkweed and allow at least a few onions, carrots and celery go to seed to attract beneficial insects. This year I planted a bunch of yarrow and some bee balm to up the game. Marigolds are a staple in my garden also.
One of the most rewarding aspect to gardening in my opinion is all the nature a garden can support. I also have 4 butterfly bushes, cardinal climbers, trumpet vines and morning glories planted for the butterflies and hummingbirds.
I have yet to be stung out in the garden, bees and wasps have more important things to do.
Nice video, Stay Well!!!
New Subscriber
I'm a beekeeper and honey bees don't get aggressive or sting unless they feel like their hive is in danger. In general lol. So yea, they tend to not mind you next to them in the garden.
👩🏻🌾💐😻 I admit it, I’m going to be honest. 🕷️I hate spiders and snakes. They freak me out.
I love bees :) Ever since I started a garden, I found out how friendly they really are :) I harvest right next to them and they never bother me, they've come to check me out, then just go on to their pollinating ;)
Something I learned from Penn and Teller, bees won't sting you unless you crush them. They did a bit where Teller had a mouth full of bees and not one sting.
In Hawaii I would take petunias with bees in them and then put them in my mouth and open it at my sibligs. 😂 No harm to anything, except the bloom.
His “fr”s are sooooo funny
Thank you for your service sir ❤❤❤
Thank you for your support🇺🇲🇺🇲
Artichokes have attracted so many bees of all kinds. I grew them because my husband likes them marinated, but he ended up not liking the ones i cooked lol. I left the plant because it's cool looking and it comes back every year.
I love bees! 😊 African blue basil is one of the best plants to attract bees. This basil will still produce even when it is blooming. Now paper wasps are another story! I’ve been stung three times recently and it is TERRIBLE! I never used to be afraid of wasps but now I am! Two of the times I was stung I didn’t do anything to antagonize them. I was just near one of their nests but I wasn’t harassing them. 😮
I give wasps a very wide berth, and if I see a hive, they die. I won't have that in my backyard where my daughter and dog go out to. Unless the hive is up high, then, I don't care.
I'll have to look up what a paper wasp looks like, I'm not familiar with that type. 🤔🤔
I'm sorry you've been stung, 💯😞
And those dang Wolf Spiders hurt when they bite!
I've never been bit by one, and don't plan on it. 💯 Sorry one got you, I've heard that it's a painful bite.
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They do?! I have a ton of them here 😳
@@kaptynssirensong2357They're all bark and just a little bite... 😂
@@RealBradMiller noted LOL
I’m so tired of spraying chemicals in my garden. This year I switched to natural control, putting ladybugs, lacewings, and cucumeris in my garden. My flowers and berries are thriving, and I don’t have to worry about infestation of aphids, thrips and mites. 😊😊😊
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Preying mantis also kill hummingbirds. They lay eggs near hummingbird nests.
I have stones of wolf Spiders, I also have brown recluse and all you name, I have a bunch of sticky things inside the house to catch them when they are inside. But in my garden I don't care.
I'm not with anything in the house, but outside, I'm fine with them as long as they leave me alone. 🤣🤣
Thanks for sharing’💜🙏🏼
Thank you, thank you. This really helped me. Happy gardening!
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Great, very informative video! Thank you!
This was definitely a very informative video that's full of information that I personally can use, even though those bugs were very, very creepy looking to Me!
Mantises seem to love my elderberry bushes. I see at least one in them every year, like a few minutes ago.
Wish I had one here... they love cover to hide. 💯👍
Awesome video! Definitely sharing and rewatching. I think I've got most of those plants and beneficials. They don't survive once they come in the house.... I live with three men: husband and two sons. Nope! Bug be gone is their motto.... Me? I do catch and release😊.
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I'm not a fan of bugs in the house, but I try to always catch and release them back outside when I can. But, normally, my cat gets to them first 🤦♂️🤦♂️
bees only bother you if you drink something sweet
Is a hover fly the same as what is called a sweat bee? Thank you for addressing flower gardens as well as vegetable gardens.😊
I had to research this answer because I have never heard of a sweat bee... but, yes, they are the same. 👍
My first video I came across of yours. Had to subscribe. Full of valuable information in one video.
Thank you, I appreciate that. 🤗💯
Praying mantis likes Crepe Myrtle.
I didn't know that... and of course, I don't have any of them around where I live. 🤦♂️
Those long skinny black and yellow wasp looking things will sting. Had one follow me into the garage and stung me behind my right ear. Wow. Will say though, out of hundreds of different bees and wasp around the yard, i only got stung once.
This is a very helpful and necessary video; thank you!
I have bumble bees that float around my face. Just checking me out. I love them.
Those are actually carpenter bees. The male is the one that likes to visit you and watch you. Also they can't sting. I love them too!
I get some giant fuzzy brutes almost the size of cherries or bigger in my garden and they're so loud.
Great list! I'd add in Wheel Bug. I found one on my sunflowers last year. They were eating the leaf-footed bugs. They are in the assassin bug family, and they are fascinating! I have an army of wolf spiders in my garden and I love them. They seem to keep the scorpion population down. I'm in Texas Zone 9a/b. :D I'm really enjoying your channel. Thank you!
I've never heard of the wheel bug, but will research it... thank you for the comment, and the support.
Thankfully, I don't have scorpions here, but I do have more than enough black widows. 🤦♂️
Thank you. 😊
Only thing I ever had attack me was a bumblebee! I think I got too close and didn’t see it until it was too late! It was rough and I’m sure very funny to see! 🤦🏼♀️ But the bees and even the wasp, which we have lots of around here, don’t really ever bother me. The wasp love okra! They seem to be nearly drugged while eating around on it. I can move slowly and still pick okra with no issue! It’s wild to see! 😂
I've been stung at one point in life by probably bees or wasp you can imagine... I HATE yellow jackets.
When I first started gardening, I hated the red wasps, but I've seen them eating catapillars and even pollinating flowers, so... now, they're a guest in the garden, as long as they leave me alone. 🤣🤣
Awesome, thank you!
Once again...Great Job and thanks for the pictures and information. Wish you had mentioned lizards in the garden. Also, any advice on how to keep away those tiny legging bugs that like to sting tomatoes? The mature ones look like what we used to call "stink bugs" and the little ones are usually orange and travel in packs. I do the soapy water and shake them off but I have had tons of them before.
They have a nature predator in parasitic wasps, but because they give off an odor, most insects stay away from them. The soapy water dead bath is how I handle them.
I have lizards everywhere, absolutely love having them in the garden.
Great video, and thanks for showing pics!
I am looking for color charts of beneficial bugs and a separate one of bad garden insects that I can post at my back door for quick and easy reference. If anyone knows who sells them, please let me know!
That would be great... if anyone knows where to find one... please post the info here. 💯💯💯
I would love to see you do a video of the "bad" bugs, especially the beetles that look like lady beetles! I gad no idea there were so many varieties of lady beetles!
I have two videos from a week or so early about common bad pests of the garden. 💯👍
Yes honey bees yes... but wasps don't mess with they are way more territorial
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I can’t really identity the difference between the brown spiders so I just eliminate all, except daddy long legs. I guess I can identify a spider after all. 😻
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Hey, man. New subscriber, here, since I am ENJOYING your knowledge sharing!
I think I spaced out when you were talking about basil as a defense plant. Do you let that plant flower like the carrots and dill--or not? I am about to put a bunch of it out there.
Welcome.🤗🤗
Yes, let it go to flower.
But if you want to use basil, pinch the flowers off of the ones you want to use. 💯👍
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I have a baby praying mantis this year living on my plumeria plant. Maybe the dill or marigolds brought him in but he’s welcome. Thanks for the great video!
Fantastic Info…
😃🎉 Excellent
I subscribed to your channel 🙏
Thank you for the comment, and the support. 💯🤗
@@DownHomeBackyardGardening You're very welcome 😁 Happy to be here 🙏
Todo una biodiversidad execto por las plagas
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What can you do to protect bees from the wasps but not kill either because both are helpful
@rahneclark1902 nothing that I know of... but I've never seen a wasp attacking a bee in my garden.
The bumblebee’s are swarming, all those males are looking for a mate. They fly up to me and are looking at me and I tell them “I’m not your type”
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My wasps are top gun fliers, man, those wasps fly circles around Anything. They kinda look like they’re just floating around until they start hunting, then it’s all about flying in and out of leaves. I’ve seen my wasps fly in and out of a pepper plant in a minute, checking out every leaf.
Yeah, they are definitely wanted in my garden... as long as they leave me alone. 💯🤣
I wish I had more "Good Bugs"...
Me too💯👍
Spiders ✊🏼
😻 hi,
Beware!
praying mantis also kill hummingbirds.
Yes….so true, I found one clinging to the bottom of one of my hummer feeders!😵💫
Very uncommon circumstance
We have a couple of B-52 bomber bees hanging around our deck. I know they're good for the garden, but still....... lol
Might be yellow jackets/hornets
They can build underground nests . They will chance you if close to this nest.
How about some King Cobra's for mice control? lol
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I live in Virginia and until probably 3 years ago, we had never seen an assassin bug. We took a picture and went to Facebook What is this thing?😂
We have praying mantis, and we have alot of black widows and wolf spiders. Orb spiders are pretty cool too.
We get horrible Japanese Beetles up here in the Finger Lakes and wine country here in NY, any suggestions on how to keep them away? They can eat all the leaves off of my plants in a matter of days.
I've been asked about them... all I have found in research are those traps. Hang them 100' from your crops is what I've read about them. I'm sorry you're dealing with them. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
We use those traps every year and place them in multiple places around the garden, they work but not well enough. They also lay their eggs in your soil and they grow to chew off and eat the roots of your plants. If I hear of anything else that can help with this problem. Also I planted a specific kind of large sunflowers that attract Japanese Beatles and Stink bugs.. not sure if that is what everyone calls them.
@rebeccagray2591 yes, trap crops was the other thing I read... for the grubs, I always check the beds in winter, it's the only time I'll dig into the beds looking for them. 🤦♂️
🐛🪰🕷️🪳🦗GREAT INFORMATION ‼️🐞🦟🦋
I had one praying mantis living in my pot Coleus it was a huge green plant. when that praying mantis jumped out I saw Jesus 😂😂😂 but yea Coleus
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I worry about butterflies laying eggs and their larva eating my veggies. Nonsense?
Not nonsense, they will do that... biggest thing is to identify the catapillars that become certain butteryflies... and if you like them, plant a sacrificial crop for them... that's one reason I plant alot of dill. 👍
I ordered beneficial bugs. I am sick of these aphids
Praying Mantis will kill hummingbirds. Do yourself a favor and Don’t google images. You’ll have nightmares.
I would hate to see that... but, nature is brutal. 💯💯💯
butterflies make caterpillars !!!! lmao no way they are " beneficial " for me lol
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