Should i kill insects

They eat garden pests like aphids and mites. A single adult ladybug can eat more than 50 aphids in a single day, and some may consume as many as 5, aphids in their lifetime.

Legend has it that during the Middle Ages, swarms of aphids were destroying European crops. The farmers prayed to the Virgin Mary, and help came in the form of aphid devouring ladybugs.

The grateful farmers began referring to the beetles as "Our Lady's beetles. While some types of spiders—like black widows and brown recluses—are dangerous, most household spiders are harmless. Despite their creepy appearance, common spiders like wolf spiders and common house spiders are your allies when it comes to pest control.

Praying mantises are a very helpful pest for gardeners. A single mantis can eat a lot of insects, which helps to control the population of insects that could damage your plants. These insects are so useful that some people will even purchase praying mantises to release in their gardens. Their pincers are used for defense. Plus, they usually cause minimal damage to healthy garden plants. Stink bugs are a nuisance that you may encounter in the fall.

These pests try to enter homes to find a warm place to spend the winter. Engaging with nature increases well-being and stimulates learning in children. Insects are a fantastic way to engage with nature, and where better to do this than in your own back yard!

Observing and experimenting on insects is a wonderful teaching tool for everything from life cycles to the scientific method. It will also teach your kids to value nature and live sustainably. In reality, the risk of exposing your children to the pesticides far outweighs the nuisance of having a few bugs around.

Instead, integrated pest management, which combines non-chemical techniques like cleaning of food residues, removal of potential nutrients, and sealing cracks and crevices , is safer for your family and your garden ecosystems. Your backyard has a surprising impact on the broader health of your neighbourhood, and gardens can make significant contributions to local biodiversity. Insects are an important part of ecosystem conservation, and encouraging them will improve the health of your local environment and probably your health and well-being too.

Read more: Conservation efforts must include small animals. After all, they run the world. In the end, insects and spiders are not out to get you. For the sake of our kids and our environment, you should give them a chance.

Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. I mean how would you feel iif you were just walking minding your own biussnes and then your dead. Yea doesnt sound so good now does it. But still ants are muracculs because that carry up to 10 times there weight. And all there dooing is feeding there speceis.

Also they eat harmfull thing like masquitoes. I think bugs should stay outside where they should be not in are homes. Well I think that that the bugs are committing crimes like stealing my food like my potato and are going to my moms car and I said get out me moms car and he said no and I got said :.

I think its OKAY to kill a bug…but when i kill a bug i feel a little guilty. But there are some dangerous bugs that we can kill.

Plus if we kill these bugs it can mess up the food chain and then there would be more bugs. Everyone dies. To put it into perception, killing an ant or spider instead of just moving it outside, is like shooting a human instead of letting them die in his sleep.

Everything is mortal, and everything dies. Its a matter of naturally or by a thumb. I think that it depenes if we should kill the bugs. But me pursonaly i would kill bugs and spiders because im scary of them.

Like if the bugs are bed bugs i would kill them because they can harm you and bite you. If there attacking you i would kill them, and are poseins. I also think there apart of the food chain like my teacher told me if one think goes down the hole thing goes down. I think we should kill spiders and other bugs.