Segment 1 of S4E9 Five Good & Five Bad Bugs - The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio show

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In segment one: Joey and Holly talk about
five good bugs and five bad bugs in your garden.

1.Aphids Spray these bad guys off your plants with water from the garden hose or a spray bottle. (And encourage the good garden bugs that eat them for you!) what eats them green and brown lacewings, lady beetles, hover flies, midges, bigeyed bugs, damsel bugs, soldier beetles, and blister beetles
2. Tomato Hornworms
Handpick these bad guys off your plants on sight. Glow in black light
3. Snails and Slugs
Handpick, crush, or set out beer traps. Coffee gound /sand /egg shells around the plant sorta of works
4. Squash Vine Borers
Get rid of these garden destroyers using the basic stem borer control method: Insert wire in hole in stem and skewer.
5. Potato beetle
Plant sage a buddy plant

Straw Mulch
Mulching heavily with straw not only helps keep the tubers out of the sunlight but also creates a habitat for predators of the Colorado potato beetle. If you can attract ground beetles, ladybugs, and green lacewings, they'll do a lot of the hard work for you.
Crop Rotation
Companion Planting
Other ways to control them
Apply neem oil as needed. This is the organic gardener's go-to insecticide, and it works wonders––even better than most conventional options.
Hand-pick beetles, larvae, and eggs and throw them in a bucket of soapy water to kill them.
Use a vacuum to remove beetles, larvae, and eggs. There are special "bug vacs" for garden use, but a regular household handheld vacuum also works well.

Good bugs
Earthworms
Ladybugs besides eating bad bugs ladybugs also look for pollen for a food source, so there are numerous plants you can grow to help attract them. Flowers and herbs such as cilantro, dill, fennel, caraway, yarrow, tansy, angelica, scented geraniums, coreopsis and cosmos are good choices for luring the ladybug
Bees
Pillbugs sometimes also referred to as roly-pollies, primarily consume plant matter that is either decaying or is already dead and decomposed. Their preferred foods are soft decaying plants like grasses and leaves, but they may also eat mulch used in landscaping around the house.The other major benefit of “rollie pollies” in the garden is that they are a natural way to safely remove heavy metals from the soil. Toxins like lead, cadmium, and arsenic (among others) are not harmful to pill bugs. ... They're giving you good, clean soil for your plants.
Lacewings
Lacewings are not harmful or dangerous to humans, but they are dangerous to other insects in your garden. At the larval stage, lacewings devour aphids and other pests such as mealybugs, thrips and juvenile whiteflies in massive numbers
Nectar and pollen wil(continued)