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Gardeners and homeowners today are more cognizant of the need to protect our planet and care for our environment. Gone are the days of dusting and spraying everything that moved, or drenching herbicides on plants that sprouted where they didn't belong. Organic and biological controls are the wave of today and the future, and they are as close as your Internet connection.
Most garden pests have natural predators, but those aggressors don't always come to our gardens when we need them. Sometimes we can tailor our gardens and landscapes to attract the beneficial insects, but not always. That's when mail-order comes into play. A number of companies advertise the sale of beneficial insects and nematodes, as well as organic control methods for invasive weeds or plants. An Internet search on "buy beneficial insects" will bring up a good list of places to research, as does the Garden Watchdog.
The following list covers most of the common pests we see in our landscapes.
Information gathered from mail-order companies on the Internet, and catalog for ARBICO Organics, 2008 edition
About Toni Leland
Toni Leland has been writing for over 20 years. As a spokesman for the Ohio State University Master Gardener program, she has written a biweekly newspaper column and is the editor of the Muskingum County MG newsletter, Connections; she currently writes for GRIT, Over the Back Fence, and Country Living magazines. She has been a gardener all her life, working soil all over the world. In her day job, she scripts and produces educational DVDs about caring for Miniature Horses, writes and edits books about them, and has published five novels.
Most garden pests have natural predators, but those aggressors don't always come to our gardens when we need them. Sometimes we can tailor our gardens and landscapes to 
