Fall apples in the garden for insects and other animals

Now the clean-up time has come back to the garden. Flowers are cut off, seeds are collected for next year, the fruit harvest is stored and the half rotten fall apples are cleared from the lawn.

Dear garden owner, leave a few rotting apples for useful insects! Ladybugs love a piece of apple and eat a lot of aphids. Even butterflies that are still fluttering are fruit lovers. Earwigs eat up large quantities of harmful beetle larvae - we should treat them to a piece of fruit. Hedgehogs nibble on it - and it's so nice to see blackbirds picking their own fruit - real sweet bites!