Beneficial Insects You Want in your Garden - The Gardener's Best Friends!

Hello friends, in today's episode we look at some commonly found garden insects that are actually very beneficial for your garden. So let's meet some of these friends that you would love to have in your garden. Let's start with honeybees. Honeybees play a very important role in pollinating a lot of plants, fruit plants, especially citrus plants here in Southern California. And in a typical Southern California garden, you will be amazed at how many honeybees exist around citrus trees. You can see them buzzing around citrus trees like oranges and tangerines and limes. And now let's meet its cousin, the bumblebee. The bumblebee is a much larger bee, which has a unique buzzing sound and it pollinates a lot of vegetables like eggplants, cucumbers and squashes. The bumblebees are so important that a lot of greenhouses actually use bumblebees to pollinate the plants when they are stored inside greenhouses. And as you can see here, they look lovely and they make a very unique buzzing sound as they go around and pollinate all your vegetables in your garden. And as long as you don't use pesticides in your garden, you'll have a lot of bumblebees buzzing around everywhere. And now let's look at ladybugs or ladybirds. This is a very beneficial insect that preys on all the harmful insects for your plants like aphids and some other insects as well. And ladybugs are beautiful to look at. They come in a variety of colors. And in the springtime and the summertime, you will see a lot of ladybugs in your garden and they will do a great job at eliminating the bad insects from your garden. And if you naturally have them, that's good. If not, you can head over to your local garden store and buy some live ladybugs. As you can see here, these ladybugs are ready to go out and feast themselves on all the bad insects like aphids and scales and whiteflies and stuff. And now let's look at earthworms. These harmless creatures are not only insects, but they play a very important role in your garden. They convert a lot of organic matter into rich humus. And they also play a very important role in furrowing through your soil, making it nice and loose and adding a lot of valuable nutrients in the soil. They also digest small particles of soil like sand and then excrete them. And their droppings called worm castings are very high in nutrients. They play a very important role in decomposing your compost bin as well and converting them into worm castings and worm tea, which will add a lot of nutrients to your soil. So earthworm is definitely the gardener's best friend. I hope you like this episode and I hope you get to see a lot of these beneficial insects in your garden. By not using pesticides, you will make sure that these nice and beneficial insects are always there in your garden. And we'll see you again soon. Happy gardening.