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Getting a Good Buzz from Cosmos

August 28, 2009 - According to the most recent issue of "Organic Gardening", gardens full of flowers such as cosmos, sunflowers, borage, cilantro, zinnias and clovers have fewer problems with leaf-eating caterpillars. This summer I have all of these intermingled with my veggie plants. I planted the flowers to attract bees which help with pollination. Well it turns out the bees do more than pollinate, they scare caterpillars. The caterpillars confuse the vibrations caused my the bees with hunting wasp. Fearing for their lives the caterpillars stop eating or even drop to the ground. Wow, and to think I have just been appreciating these cosmos for the color and beauty they add to my kitchen garden.
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