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Lacewings are delicate insects that produce alligator-like, hungry offspring that devour aphids and other garden pests

GARDENING GUIDES Great Golden Digger Wasp: A Beneficial Flower-Visiting Insect

Introducing the great golden digger wasp, a colorful pollinator that also hunts foliage-eating insects

GARDENING GUIDES This Fly Is One of the Most Beneficial Insects Around

Meet the syrphid fly, a colorful pollinator that also beats chemicals for controlling aphids and other garden pests

GARDENING GUIDES Organic Matters: Thwart Insect Pests With Trap Crops

By Therese Ciesinski

Add a few sacrificial plants to your garden to lure insects away from the harvest

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES Gardening for the Bees, and Why It’s a Good Thing

When you discover how hard bees work for our food supply, you may never garden without them in mind again

GARDENING GUIDES Put Out the Welcome Mat for Leafcutter Bees in Your Garden

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Provide a diversity of flowering plants from spring through fall for these charismatic native bees, and you won’t be disappointed

GARDENING GUIDES 6 Plants That Beat Butterfly Bush for the Wildlife Draw

It's invasive, a nonnative and a poor insect magnet. Check out these better alternatives to butterfly bush in the garden

GARDENING GUIDES Great Native Plant: Rattlesnake Master for Unique Interest

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Serpents actually don’t give a hoot about this prairie wildflower, but insects do — and the foliage is a big draw too

GARDENING GUIDES 15 Native Flowers That Feed Native Bees

These perennials offer superfood to hundreds of bees and are gorgeous in their own right

GARDENING GUIDES Attract Thynnid Wasps With Summer-Flowering Native Plants

These beneficial insects will hunt damaging beetle grubs in your lawn