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What insects will eat greenfly?
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2/6/04 11:58, in article , "Jane Ransom" wrote: In article , Jeff writes Hi. What insects will eat greenfly (without then becoming pests themselves)? I know about ladybirds, but are there any others? Hover flies. A hover fly can lay several hundreds of eggs on a plant and each larvae will eat up to 400 greenfly during its life time. I think that wasps also eat greenfly but am not 100% sure. Some urglers recommend (swear that the problem disappears) dotting those bird peanut feeders round the garden. The theory is that a bird will have a coupe of caterpillars for starters, a few peanuts and then a few dozen green/black/white fly for pudding!! It works for us, I must say. We have feeders in the garden and several in the greenhouses and both are alive with birds. We have wrens, blackbirds, blue tits, chaffinches and sparrows nesting in the greenhouses and all those plus thrushes in the garden. They feed on the peanuts in winter and adults will take them now, too but we often see them with their beaks stuffed with 'wrigglers' to take to their babies. Do you still have the blue tits now that they are needed to cope with the insect pests? Mine have gone to their summer quarters. Franz |
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