Resisting the urge to wipe the garden clean of leaves and spent perennials now can help foster a wildlife habitat for beneficial insects.
Any leaves or spent perennials left from the fall served an important role over the winter, providing shelter and food for insects. And resisting the urge to wipe the garden clean can continue to foster a wildlife habitat for those beneficial creatures.
, a mail-order native plant nursery in Frenchtown, N.J. “We need to think about all the life stages of these insects instead of focusing only on the beautiful adults. We also have to feed their children.”Now, young stages of butterflies, moths and other beneficial insects are nestled in last year’s leaves, some of them munching on decomposing duff — leaves, twigs, bark and other plant litter.
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