How to reduce creepy-crawlies on your farm?

Undesirables:

• Mosquitoes
• Flies
• Slugs
• Ticks

Hunters:

• Bats
• Dragonflies
• Toads & other reptiles
• Small birds

Arrange a pond for reptiles and dragonflies, but be mindful that ponds also breed mosquitoes, so build it in a way that favours dragonflies and eliminate other still water bodies in the area, such as open rainwater collectors.

Build bird houses and especially bat houses (endangered), but be mindful that they can prey on your dragonflies.

Selecting a plot of land

• If your plot of land includes a stream, that should attract many predators. Use it to build a pond too.
• To reduce flies, find land far from cattle farms.
• To reduce mosquitoes and bugs in general, find high ground far from lakes.
• If you own the forest next to it, improve its biodiversity.
  • undo the monoculture and randomly sow a diverse set of plants and fungi
  • make lots of houses for bats, birds, hedgehogs, squirrel, …
  • erect cairns (piles of stone)
  • make open sandy areas
  • set up a beehive that you leave alone