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of predators in your garden is a great benefit too- get some feeders out first and get the birds in! Yes I think they are easy to grow, I have a few here and they tend do their own thing. slugs and snails do love them but if the plant has a some well developed

possibility that if it spreads widely it might become more of a nuisance than Palomena because it has left its predators and parasitoids behind in southern Europe so populations here increase unchecked. But like all things in the garden, it is not a pest

, such as Agralan Insect Barrier Glue, placed around pots or on greenhouse staging. Encourage natural enemies. Vine weevils and their grubs are eaten by a variety of predators such as birds, frogs, toads, shrews, hedgehogs and predatory ground beetles. A biological

and poisons intervene which they still do]. Hawks, like wolves another misunderstood predator, NEVER overkill their hunting territory and if not culled by being hunted, the prey birds would die of natural causes including starvation and disease

our garden but the natural predators seem to be unable to deal with the large slug/snail population of this year !! It's very disheartening when established plants are eaten away and most of my annual seedlings have disappeared overnight this year - I

. There are lots of predators, mainly beetles (adults and larvae, that feed on the Drosophila grubs. My favourites are the histerids, small (4-10mm) shiny black critters slightly flattened broad rounded globular with thick digging legs to pull through the slimy

the sap from the plants, but is relatively harmless in small numbers. In fact, they are beneficial to the garden, as they attract ladybirds and lacewings, who feed off them and help maintain the delicate balance of pest and predator in the garden. Anyway

butterfly- and ladybird-friendly garden.@oldchippy - the nettle bucket isn't in the flat! The smell isn't that bad, really. I can guarantee you won't notice it if you come to paint it ;)@kevc - dung flies are important predators of other flies, including

-proof. Perhaps the blackbirds are trying to redesign our gardens for us? That "cluck cluck" they do might not be warning of a predator, but really mean: "tut tut, you shouldn't have planted that there.." I use black 24cm Flat T labels (code LTSL250BL

for this is because this pond has straight sides and with no shelves, a heron and other predators cannot stand in the vertical sided pond and reach down 1m so my amphibians all feel safer and they can get out in the shallow bit when they need to. Has anyone else found