Question: I keep seeing fast moving, tiny bees in my garden. Do I need to worry about my grandchildren getting stung? Note: The Douglas County Master Gardener Plant Clinic offers free insect ...

Other important cucumber pollinators include native bee species, syrphid flies (a.k.a. hover or flower flies), and soldier beetles (which are also good predators). Many of the same plants that attract ...

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Its downy leaves are host food for red-spotted purple and striped hairstreak caterpillars, and the nectar and pollen attract various kinds of bees and syrphid flies. Its wood also nourishes ...

The larvae of ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, lacewings and syrphid flies eat aphids and other pest insects voraciously. And they have no side effects in your yard. (Here are some pictures of some ...

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But unlike bees, they don’t utilize ultraviolet coloration as guides. Syrphid flies, often called flower flies, are some of the first spring pollinators showing up on my flowering plants ...