In organic growing of helichrysum italicum, we are happy to say that immortelle plants once again justify their name. Helichrysum is highly resistant to most natural pests in our environment. The helichrysum plant is the most vulnerable in the first year of its life when it has not yet developed a defense system. At that time, it is most threatened by a butterfly that lay eggs on a plant from which younger worms are later hatched. Worms can cause damage by eating green shoots of the plant.
When the immortelle plant overcomes the first year, it develops immunity, and is no longer attractive to the butterflies.
Also one of the enemies are bugs that burst under the surface. Since our plantation on rocky ground these bugs are rare. They much more appear on earthy terrains.
In the pictures below are seen bees, wasps , flies imitating bees and wasps, a very weird species of mantis, butterflies, moths, locusts, ants, lizards and many other species we do not even know which all together make biodiversity on one organic farm.
It would be interesting to see the real subgroup names for these insects and animals from pictures by bilogists or entomologists to give us exact names for individual insects.