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Beneficial Insect Products to Control Bad Guys
In our discussion about Attracting Beneficial Insects To The Landscape we give lots of tips about how to increase the number of bene bugs in your yard to the sadness of the pest insects sneaking around. In this section of Yardener's Tool Shed we give you access to virtually all the reasources offering beneficial insects or devices to attract beneficial insects to your yard.

Using Beneficial Insects
In some cases in Yardener’s Helper we offer as an option to control certain pest insects the use of commercially available live beneficial insects. Homeowners with greenhouses or sunspaces may find releasing beneficial insects very valuable in protecting those plants from problems.

Attracting Beneficial Insects To The Yard
By far, most of the bugs, beetles, and flies calling your yard home are either beneficial to your ecosystem or are benign and cause no harm. What is also somewhat astounding is that in a healthy ecosystem, 80% of the pest insects that visit your yard will be killed within months either by weather, by song birds, or by beneficial insects.

Create Habitat For Beneficial Insects
Mow grass tall and keep it dense with overseeding Use organic mulch all over the place Leave some boards, pieces of hose, or stacks of stones around the yard.

Plants Attracting Beneficials
Many of the beneficial insects performing the valuable service of keeping your pest insects in control will need nectar and pollen at various stages of their life. We are suggesting that almost any of the plants listed in the chart below are going to help keep your beneficial population healthy.

Listings for Beneficial Insects in Washington

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	Sky Nursery
	Shoreline, Washington (WA) 98133 Click for details...


	Flower World
	Snohomish, Washington (WA) 98296-7952


	The Plant Farm at Smokey Point
	Marysville, Washington (WA) 98271-4724


	Wild Bird Shop
	Kalama, Washington (WA) 98625