GOOD BUGS M-P(beneficial bugs)
GOOD BUGS- A-C
GOOD BUGS- D-L
GOOD BUGS- R-Z
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
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
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 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
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 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 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 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
Feeds on soil living insects, mites, fungus gnat and all stages of springtails
They are very small- 1/20 inch
GOOD BUGS- A-C
GOOD BUGS- D-L
GOOD BUGS- R-Z
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