Provide corner plot at the disposal of small animals. Give him overgrown with nettles and other wild plants - to settle there useful animals will thank you for the blood of keeping watch over the garden.
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For 30 minutes, you can:
To build a "hotel" for insects.
Fill the pot with straw and plant them upside down on a twig. It will settle earwigs.
useful mess
plant residues accumulate constantly in every garden, which are not used for composting - branches after clipping hedges, thick branches, stumps and trees t. d. Do not rush to get rid of this rubbish: it will attract to the garden a lot of useful animals -zlatoglazok, ladybugs, hover flies, hedgehogs and birds. They will help you to deal with pests - slugs, aphids or caterpillars. It is quite useful to take the inhabitants of a small garden overgrown area next to the compost heap.
Firewood and piles of stones
Twigs, rocks and foliage are a refuge for many predatory insects. Day of ground beetles; hiding in dark gaps between pieces of wood and stones, and at night out chase on snails, worms and other small animals. Ladybirds hibernate among fallen leaves or bark cracks. And do these bugs and their larvae -neprimirimye enemies of aphids. Some species also feed on scale insects and spider mites.
Fertilized hoverflies hibernate among the branches, leaves, in cracks in walls and other cramped shelters. In early spring they lay their eggs in the colonies of aphids, which serve as food for their larvae.
The piles of firewood often lodge toads and lizards. Jerzy arrange them in their winter quarters. All these animals prey on insects, snails and spiders. Wrens, robins and other birds build some in piles of firewood their nests.
A pile of stones is a haven lizards, which in summer often climb on it to bask in the sun. Slide from big and small natural stones look great on gravel-covered shore of a garden pond.
Where nettle - there and butterflies
Leave in the garden area, overgrown with nettles. Stinging be the basic fodder plant the caterpillars of many butterflies, but also, in its thickets pleasure garden warbler nest.
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