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and hoverfly and their larvae. The larvae can eat up to 300 aphids before becoming an adult, so ensuring you have plenty of these in your garden will keep aphid populations in check. You can attract ladybirds, lacewings and hoverflies into your garden

flowers work wonders bringing in pollinators like bees, hoverflies and butterflies.Vic has told me to help myself to his sweet peas and I have - very freely! It's far better to keep picking them regularly than let them go to seed as they stop flowering

from every corner of the plot - far better than any show of wallflowers. They're also attracting bees and hoverflies, which is definitely a good thing, especially as there's not much else in flower on the plot at the moment. But they've got to go. I