Attract Beneficial Bugs

Flowers for Borders
Control pests by planting these flowers for borders and drawing beneficial insects into your garden.
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- Achillea millefolium (common yarrow) - Syrphid flies, Lacewing larvae
- Achillea filipendulina (fern-leaf yarrow)
- Ammi majus (false Queen Anne’s lace) - annual
- Anethum graveolens (dill) - annual
- Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
- Angelica species
- Anise, aniseed - annual, attracts parasitic wasps, ladybugs, lacewings, tachinid flies, etc
- Anthemis tinctoria (golden marguerite)
- Aurinia saxatilis (basket of gold)
- Baccharis species (evergreen shrub)
- Bachelor’s Buttons or Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) - annual
- Boltonia asteroides (starflower) - attracts Tachinid flies, soldier beetles, syrphid flies, minute pirate bugs, ladybugs, big-eyed bugs, etc
- Borage (Borago officinalis)
- Calamint
- Caraway - annual, attacts syrphid flies, minute pirate bugs, big-eyed bugs, lacewings, parasitic wasps, etc
- Chamaemelum nobile (Roman chamomile)
- Coreopsis (tickseed, calliopsis) - attracts minute pirate bugs, parasitic wasps, soldier beetles, syrphid flies, lacewings, and spiders.
- Coriander, cilantro, Chinese parsley - annual, attracts syrphid flies, tachinid flies, parasitic wasps, etc
- Cosmos (Garden cosmos, Mexican aster) - annual, attracts tachinid flies, parasitic wasps, lacewings, syrphid flies, minute pirate bugs, spiders, ladybugs, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, etc
- Echinacea (conflowers)
- Eriogonum species (wild buckwheat) - attracts lacewings, ladybugs, syrphid flies, parasitic wasps, tachinid flies, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, and minute pirate bugs.
- Erysimum species (wallflower) - annual, attracts syrphid flies, ladybugs, and lacewings.
- Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
- Gaillardia (Blanket Flowers)
- Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum)
- Helianthus annuus (sunflower) - annual
- Heliopsis helianthoides (false sunflower) - attracts spined soldier bugs, ladybugs, green lacewing, parasitic wasps, tachinid flies, syrphid flies, syrphid fly, etc
- Lavenders
- Leucanthemum ×superbum (Shasta daisy) - attracts parasitic wasps, minute pirate bugs, lacewings, soldier beetles, ladybugs, and syrphid flies.
- Lovage
- Monarda (spotted bee balm)
- Mountain Mints (pycnanthemum species)
- Mints (Mentha)
- Oregano
- Ratibida pinnata (yellow coneflower)
- Rudbeckia (black eyed susan) - supports syrphid flies, tachinid flies, soldier beetles, parasitic wasps, etc
- Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)
- Solidago species (goldenrod) - attracts soldier beetles, big-eyed bugs, minute pirate bugs, ladybugs, parasitic wasps, syrphid flies, damsel bugs, spiders, assassin bugs, and many other natural enemies.
- Spiraea alba (meadowsweet)
- Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima) - annual
- Sweet marjoram (Origanum majorana) - annual
- Symphyotrichum (hardy aster) - supports minute pirate bugs, parasitic wasps, damsel bugs, ladybugs, tachinid flies, and soldier beetles.
- Tanacetum parthenium (feverfew) - attracts tachinid flies, lacewing larvae, ladybug larvae, minute pirate bugs, syrphid flies, damsel bugs, assassin bugs, spiders, etc
- Verbena stricta (tall vervain) - attracts minute pirate bugs, parasitic wasps, damsel bugs, spiders, and lacewings.
- Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s root, Bowman’s root) - attracts native bees, parasitic wasps, pollen-seeking syrphid flies, and minute pirate bugs.
- Zizia aurea (golden zizia, golden alexanders)