How to attract useful helpers from living nature to your garden and vegetable garden: let's look at 5 examples

Many summer residents prefer non-chemical methods of pest control, and therefore they attract beneficial living creatures to the site.

Insects and some animals will help to restore balance to the ecosystem in the garden.

This system has been used for quite a long time in many foreign countries – they attract “predators” that hunt pests.

Let us pay attention to the recommendations of the expert of the online publication Belnovosti and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh.

What can be done on the site

Here are some tips.

1. Bug Hotel. Skip the chemicals to attract ladybugs and other beneficial bugs. You can build a small house out of a box and put wood shavings in it.
2. A house for a hedgehog. Insects, caterpillars, slugs and mice are part of its diet. You can put a small house in a dark place.
3. Copperhead. It is harmless to humans. It feeds on mice, moles and shrews.
4. Bird feeders. Help them survive the winter without problems.
5. Stag Beetles: Take a plastic bucket, punch holes in the sides and place it in a hole at a quiet end of the plot.