Beneficial insects are the
soldiers of the garden and will protect your plants from aphid attack,
and other nasty pests and diseases. It is worth creating a
wildlife habitat for ladybirds, lacewings and other beneficial insects,
as encouraging them to make a home in your garden will cut down on the
work you will have to do to look after your fruit, vegetables and
flowers.
Ladybirds
Ladybirds will eat aphids in your garden and stop them attacking your
roses. Many wildlife gardeners choose to buy a special ladybird
habitat to provide them with winter shelter but you can just
as easily leave the growth on your herbaceous borders over winter and
cut them back in spring so that they can shelter here through the
winter months.
Lacewings
Lacewings will help to keep aphids under control in your wildlife
garden as they like to eat them. They appreciate a garden
shelter or wildlife habitat for bad weather and
overwintering. You can create lacewing habitat by
stacking twigs and logs, or you can buy a lacewing
habitat
Hoverflies
Hoverflies will eat aphids such as greenfly. They
require dead wood for the larval stage of their life cycle so
they will appreciate a stack of dead wood in your wildlife garden.
  
Plants for beneficial insects
Good plants to attract
beneifical insects to your garden include stinging nettles, yarrow and
clover
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