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What insects will eat greenfly?
In article , John Edgar
writes Do you have the right small birds? They're not all insect eaters. Bluetits seem to be the best for eating aphids, as others have said, and I often see them eating aphids on the honeysuckle outside the kitchen window. How can you have "wrong" or "right" birds in the garden? wrong or right for the purpose - in this case eating greenfly. If the only birds in your garden are seed eaters, you are not going to observe them eating greenfly. Surely you get what arrives don't you? Of course. Whether they decide to stay around depends on the conditions that you encourage, but that isn't really relevant to the point I was making. You can't choose them. I can sort of see your point though. I cannot stand magpies and chase them away at every opportunity, so I suppose, for me, they must be the wrong birds. I do the same with grey squirrels - nasty creatures. Elegant movers, and not so nasty if you're in a city where squirrels are not over abundant and any sort of wildlife is welcome. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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