Nectar and Host Plants: For the Unseen Half

A planting designed for insects. It includes two types of plants: flowering nectar plants that provide food for adult insects, with deliberately staggered flowering periods to ensure flowers are present in different months; and non-flowering host plants that are eaten by larvae, with visible bite marks on the leaves. These bite marks are evidence of success, not pest damage. There is a wide variety of plant species, with small quantities of each type, mixed together.
Avoid: Only planting ornamental flowering plants, treating eaten leaves as a problem requiring pest control, using a single species in large mass plantings, spraying insecticides to maintain intact leaves.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片為昆蟲設計的植栽。它同時包含兩類植物:開花的蜜源植物提供成蟲食物,花期刻意錯開讓不同月份都有花;以及不開花但會被幼蟲吃掉的食草,葉子上有明顯的啃食缺口。這些缺口是成功的證據不是病蟲害。植栽的種類多、單種的數量少、混生在一起。避免:只種觀賞性的開花植物、把被啃食的葉子視為需要防治的問題、使用單一種類大面積叢植、噴灑殺蟲劑維持葉片完整。