Conserving Beneficial Insects with Native Plants

January 2013

Kelly Gill and Matt O'Neal, ISU Entomology

This fact sheet offers guidelines for establishing native perennial plants to attract beneficial insects, which provide pollination and pest control services. See related project E2009-09.

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This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs-and-papers/2013-01-conserving-beneficial-insects-native-plants on 01/21/2013