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, but it is true that some gardeners consider them a pest. It probably depends on how much you want your garden to be a sanctuary for wildlife, and whether you are growing a crop for sale! Have a look at this page from the BBC website to learn about their habits

nursery presented me with a dead specimen found flying around indoors last year.Unlike the berberis sawfly, which has caused quite a running commentary on this blog, Cimbex is never a garden pest, since it never reaches pest proportions. Instead

Build a compost binStart adding homemade compost to your soil and you'll not only enjoy watching your garden thrive and flourish but you'll also have the satisfaction of seeing your kitchen waste get recycled too. In just five easy steps, we'll show

I have something in my garden [i hate to call it a weed]. it is more than 2m tall,has 2in thick, hollow stems. the flowers are like small pink orchids which bloom from may till september, and grows in a wild part of the garden in semi shade on top

-chewing garden pestsSlugsCaterpillarsEarwigsRosemary leaf beetle

persimilis on to your plants. Alternatively, use sprays containing, fatty acids or plant oils.houseplants, greenhouse plants, also outdoors on fuchsias, runner beans, busy lizzies, grape vinesall year roundMore common garden pestsMealybugsScale insectsWhiteflyThrips

others, and they generally look really poor and discoloured.  While I was examining them for slugs I've discovered a green beetle-like insect that looks like a cross between a beetle and a cricket and is bright sap green.  Is this a pest?  Is it causing

different methods for getting rid of them. Bother it didn't work. I'll have to send it separately (if it works). http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pests/a/vole_control.htm My garden is undermined with the burrows of short tailed voles. Some of the grass

in the moist soil is a wireworm. I know these are supposed to be notorious garden and agricultural pests, but like so many insects, I can't really treat them as pests unless they reach pest proportions. A few of last year's potatoes had small holes in them

pests out there which we, in Britain, will never have to deal with in our gardens.For example in Trinidad there is a large ant (about 1cm long) called a bachak that will (along with a few hundred friends) quickly demolish a garden. They even eat onions