There are two ways to get beneficials into your yard. You can order them from a supply house such as Evergreen Grower's Supply or Arbico-Organics or you can plant flowers and other plants that will provide habitat for the beneficials.

Insects come in all forms from the creepy crawly to the stunningly beautiful. I have found as we've built our soil and increased the plant life, the insect population has grown as well. Learning to live peacefully with some insects can certainly be challenging but many provide valuable inputs into the system we are creating when we build sustainable landscapes. Our goal here is to highlight some of the challenges and some of those insects than can contribute to the life in our yards in a beneficial way.