Tag: goodcritters
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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: 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: 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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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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