GOOD BUGS M-P(beneficial bugs)

BENEFICIAL BUGS

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

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

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] 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

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

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

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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

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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