Tag: goodcritters
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Bucket Pond Make And Manage
I just can’t bring myself to like mosquitoes. They suck your blood, make you itch and can give you some nasty diseases. Certainly entry grounds into my BadCritters club :). So I take much pleasure in my bucket pond’s mosquito killing power. It was so easy and cheap to make. Maintenance varies from rarely to…
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PK’s Worm Farms
Although this is my first ever worm farm, I am already hooked and singing their virtues.
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GoodCritters: Western Honey Bee
Bees are one of my favourite insects. They have co-evolved with flowering plants and their benefit to your garden can not be overstated. So you can definitely say that humans and bees have a strong relationship albeit pretty one sided. The species of bee that we all recognise on sight is not native to Australia…
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GoodCritters: Daddy Long Legs Spider
These delicate spiders get an automatic entry into the GoodCritters club :). They munch on the munchers (BadCritters) and keep to themselves otherwise. Legend has it they can’t bite humans. Species: Pholcus phalangioides Identification: Benefits: These little guys munch on other insects such as mosquitoes, other spiders and slaters (woodlice). Encouragement: As usual keep insecticides…
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GoodCritters: Praying Mantis
I have always been fascinated by praying manitses and love seeing them in my garden. I suppose you could also call them BadCritters because they eat GoodCritters if they catch them. However I think they are part of a balanced garden. Females are larger than the males and are supposedly not good fliers. Both sexes…
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GoodCritters: Ladybirds
The common spotted ladybird is found in many gardens around Australia but species vary from state to state. There are even several introduced species. Whilst they are a welcome visitor any day of the week in my garden, if you can’t see them don’t worry. That might just mean your garden’s BadCritter population is too…
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GoodCritters
In the edible garden especially you will come across organisms that you can’t help but categorise as good or bad based on their affect on your main goal, eating home grown produce. Very human of me but please hear me out. I also try not to spray insecticides/fungicides and prefer to let GoodCritters (and me…
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