1. How to use biological control instead of pesticides in your garden.
It’s a bug eat bug world!
How to use biological control instead of pesticides in your garden.
L. Bateman

2. Trophic Levels
Primary Producers (plants)
Energy 1

3. Trophic Levels Primary Consumers Primary Producers (plants) Energy 2 1
(herbivores)
Primary Producers (plants)
Energy 2 1

4. Trophic Levels Secondary Consumers (primary carnivores)
Primary Consumers
(herbivores)
Primary Producers (plants)
Energy 3 2 1

5. Trophic Levels Tertiary Consumer (secondary carnivores)
Secondary Consumers (primary carnivores)
Primary Consumers
(herbivores)
Primary Producers (plants) 4
Energy 3 2 1

6. Trophic Levels
Stinkbug
Ladybug
Aphid
Tomato Plant 4
Energy 3 2 1

7. Tomato Garden
Energy

8. Aphids Attack!
Energy

9. Aphids Kill Tomatoes
Energy

10. Ladybugs Eat Aphids
Energy

11. Ideal Biological Control
Energy

12. Ladybug Population Grows
Energy

13. Stinkbugs Eat Ladybugs
Energy

14. Stinkbugs Eat Ladybugs
Energy

15. Aphid Population Grows
Energy

16. Stinkbugs Indirectly Kill Tomatoes
Energy

17. Ideal Biological Control
Maintain this balance by:
 Eliminating the stinkbug!
Pesticides kill the ladybugs too, so let’s use other methods….
Energy

18. No more stink bugs!!! Destroy/remove weeds (stink bug habitat)
Remove and destroy eggs and stink bugs

19. More Ways to Go Green!
Pesticide use reduction in your garden is one way to “go green” and help the Earth
Check out this website for more resources on how to decrease your carbon footprint