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GOOD BUGS M-P

GOOD BUGS- A-C GOOD BUGS- D-L GOOD BUGS- R-Z


BENEFICIAL BUGS

[Marsh Fly, photo from wikipedia] MARSH FLIES

  • These flies are beneficial bugs that are slender, yellow brown in color with red eyes

  • Have long antennae and spotted wings

  • They are pollinators and prey on small snails


[Mason Bee] MASON BEE

  • They are active pollinators between apple blossom and cherry blossom season

  • Mason bees resemble house flies more than honey bees and are smaller

  • They are a dark blue black with no stripes

[mealy bug destroyer feeding on hawthorn mealybug , Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org] MEALYBUG DESTROYERS

  • As the name implies loves mealybugs, both adult and larvae

  • They will lay their eggs in a mealybug egg mass letting the new larvae feed on immature mealybugs


[minute pirate bug feeding on Green peach aphid, Bradley Higbee, Paramount Farming, Bugwood.org] MINUTE PIRATE BUGS

  • Feeds mainly on spider mites, caterpillars, thrips and other insects and their eggs

  • Adults are about 1/4 inch long

  • Bodies are silver and black with the tips of their wings are black resembling a pirate flag, hence the name

  • These bugs are excellent hunters and will kill more than they can eat


Mud dauber, Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org MUD DAUBER

  • Mud dauber has other names like dirt dauber, dirt dobber, dirt diver or mud wasp. The most common species are:
  • solid black organ pipe mud dauber
  • black and yellow mud dauber
  • irridescent blue mud dauber

They are the main predator of the black and brown widow spiders.

The muddy nests of mud-daubers are a periodic nuisance to some homeowners, but the wasps are not assertive or hazardous.

A kind of parasitic wasps attack mud-dauber nests, they steal provisions and offspring as food for their young.


NOSEMA LOCUSTAE

  • A single-celled protozoan kills over 90 species of grasshoppers, locusts, and some species of crickets

  • Non-harmful to humans, livestock, animals, and pets

  • Is capable of reproducing through infestation of grasshoppers, should cycle itself if pests are present


[Parasitic Wasp] PARASITIC WASPS

  • These wasps are so small that you will not even notice them, less than 1/8 inch

  • 1600 species in North America

  • The many different species will eat aphids, whiteflies, butterflies or moths, leafminers, scales, cabbage loopers and horworms


Phorid Fly,photo by Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org Phorid Fly (top part of image)

  • fire ant decapitating flies

  • They are very small, the image above has the fly enlarged.

  • They are from South America and are under research here in the USA.

  • May be helpful against leafcutter ants also.

[Praying Mantis] PRAYING MANTIS

  • Praying Mantises will eat insects and other invertebrates such as other praying mantises, grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, butterflies, and beetles

  • Also eat vertebrates such as lizards, mice, tree frogs, hummingbirds>/li>
  • Know by Praying Mantis, Praying Mantids or Praying Mantises

  • At least 2,000 species of Praying Mantis and are carnivorous insects

  • Camouflage is very important to these insects. Most are pea green or brown but may be light green to pink

  • Only insect that can turn it's head 180 degrees side to side

  • The female will lay anywhere from 12 to 400 eggs usually in the fall of the year


predatory mite flickr Arenamontanus PREDATORY MITES

  • Adults are about 1/2 millimeter in length

  • Are beige to reddish tan in color

  • They can comsume up 5 to 10 spider mites and citrus mites or 20 eggs a day


[Predatory Soil Mite] PREDATORY SOIL MITE

  • Feeds on soil living insects, mites, fungus gnat and all stages of springtails

  • They are very small- 1/20 inch


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