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What insects will eat greenfly?
Kay Easton wrote in
: 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. In my garden, I have observed blue tits and I think also great tits rummaging round the tips of my rose bushes and honeysuckles. They don't seem to damage the plants, so I have always assumed they are eating greenfly ( I don't get that close, so maybe they are up to something else - dunno what tho). At any rate, those plants don't have a greenfly problem, though I did find the odd one here and there when I looked today. Victoria -- gardening on a north-facing hill in South-East Cornwall -- |
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