does your garden attract any helpful bugs?

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lalalalee

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I'm searching for plants to attract beneficial bugs and while there are plenty of websites with lists, I'm curious to see what works for folks on here. What do you have that they like?
I live in New Orleans, Louisiana.
I cant believe I forgot all of this stuff. Anyway, I'm a bug person. I spend as long as I can watching them. Mostly beneficial bugs are for keeping out the pesty ones by eating them, and while I need to keep my vegetables from being ravaged I'd also like some bugs just to have. Thanks!
and when I say bugs to have, I don't mean have as pets... just have in the yard.
 
I'm in Central NC, my vegetable garden is over 1,000 square feet, and I use about pesticide once per year, on a specific plant type. I plant lots of flowers, especially things with small blossoms to provide nectar for parasitic wasps. The first nectar source every year is the flowers of overwintering vegetables allowed to go to seed, like lettuce or cabbage.

I don't think very hard about companion planting or predator habitat. The most important thing is healthy soil. Healthy soil produces healthy plants, and every plant has some natural defense against insects. The other principle is that by the time I notice a pest, predators have probably already noticed it. Poisoning the pest poisons its predators too.
 
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