Beneficial Creatures

Slow worm JP photo

Slow worm Jean Faulkner photo

Slow worms eat slugs, caterpillars, etc.

Cardinal Beetle pyrochroa serraticornis

Ladybird (this one is the black version)

Cardinal beetles and Ladybirds eat aphids

Hover fly (this is a wasp-like hoverfly)

Hover flies eat and parasitise unwanted insects

Page Updated by JP 20th August 2008

All photos taken at Elm Road Allotments and copyright John Palmer unless clearly marked otherwise.

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