Under the Leaf Patrol

Meet the natural predators that keep your rooftop garden in balance. Under the Leaf Patrol follows spiders, lacewings, ladybirds, and other beneficial insects on duty.

RUG Patrol Officers

Every rooftop needs a security team — mine just happens to have eight legs, delicate wings, or tiny hunting jaws. Under the Leaf Patrol is where I follow the natural guardians that keep my garden balanced: spiders, ladybirds, lacewings, assassin bugs, and all the quiet predators who work the night shift and the early morning hours. If you’ve ever wondered who keeps pests in check on a windy urban rooftop, this is their daily report.

RUG False Widow - Steatoda nobilis

Under the Leaf Patrol Officers

The Watchful False Widow – Steatoda nobilis

while patrolling the rooftop, I noticed a small glint running upside down on an almost invisible thread — a rounded...

An Assassin on the Rooftop: Zelus renardii, the Silent Immigrant

during my daily inspection, I came across a small, slender alien on my lime tree — greenish-red, long-legged, and still...

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