If I stop using pesticides, will bugs eat all my plants?

Native plants = good bugs (that eat bad bugs)

🐞 ❤️ A love letter to ladybugs 🐞 ❤️

Pollinators are not the only awesome bugs native plants attract. Native plants also attract beautiful and bad-ass bugs like ladybugs. While ladybugs don’t bite people, they do chow down on the bad bugs that ruin our gardens—like aphids.

UPDATED —
06/08/2025
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What is a host plant?
Think of them as pollinator daycares.
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What is a cultivar?
Styled by people, not nature.
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What are the best native trees for front yards?
Big welcome energy.
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Why does seed or plant provenance matter?
Closer is better. Here's why.
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What is an invasive plant?
Some plants cause real harm.
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What does established mean in gardening?
It's like freshman year—for plants.
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