Non-beneficial insects help attract predators for pest insects

A healthy insect population is a cornerstone component of a balanced ecology. With healthy, sustainable insect populations we cannot pick and choose the insects that we keep and those we discard. We must do what we can to attract as many and as large a variety as possible. Simply attracting or releasing a few predators and ignoring their food source is not a solution. This article shows how insect 'tourists' and even plants which trap insects and prevent them from leaving, can have incredible results on particular pest populations. The experiment they performed is great evidence.

phys.org/news/2013-01-insect-tourists-good.html

We have posted on insect population dynamics before. Population dynamics in insect communities are EXTREMELY complicated and our simplistic view of them can be very can be very harmful to our inteded outcome.

agroregeneration.blogspot.com/2012/08/study-demonstrates-that-one-extinction.html