Beneficial Insects |
| Bee
Target: Feed on pollen and nectar.
Damage: Can be harmful to people and pets if disturbed.
Control: None |
| Target: Feed on smaller insects
Damage: Will eat good and bad bugs
Control: None
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| Target: Aphids, leafhoppers, and small caterpillars
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| Target: Other insects, caterpillars, soil maggots and grubs, larger ground beetles eat snail and slug eggs as well as small snails and slugs
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| Target: Lacewing larva eat aphids, leafhoppers, mites, thrips, mealy bugs, whiteflies, and other small insects Lacewing adults feed on nectar and pollen from flowers.
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| Target: Adult and larva eat soft body insects like aphids.
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| Centipedes and Millipedes * Target: Eat insects, baby snails, slugs. Also feed on decaying plant material and fallen fruit. Damage: Nuisance, centipedes have the bite of a bee and some millipedes may cause skin irritations.
*Centipedes have about thirty legs, millipedes as many as 400 |
| Target: Certain beneficial nematodes attack 400 varieties of borers, caterpillars, and root insects by parasitizing soil grubs or releasing bacteria that kill insect larva.
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| Target: Decaying matter in fruits and vegetation. Pill bugs take the blame for fruit damage close to the ground because they clean up after true damage is done by other bugs. Control: Clean up pill bugs by moving them to compost piles where they will enjoy all the decaying matter.
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| Target: Soft body insects, larva attacks soil-borne insects
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| Target: Mexican bean beetle and most insect larva and insect eggs. Can attack more than 100 garden pests including cabbage loopers, army worms, and corn earworms. Damage: Young adults can suck plant juices. Control: None, does more good than harm
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| Target: Decaying plant material Damage: Mostly eat decaying matter, but has been known to eat fine roots in wet to soggy soil
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| Target: Hunt and feed on soft body insects such as aphids
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| Target: Grasshoppers, armyworms, cutworms, stinkbugs, and larva of small beetles
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| Target: Decaying plant material Damage: Gets blamed for fruit damage but is only cleaning rotted waste and decay Control: None, remove places for them to hide
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