Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Big-Eyed Bugs (Geocordiae spp.)
Karen There are over twenty five species of bug-eyed bugs in North America some of which live coast to coast in the US. They are tiny but very abundant and considered…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Green Lacewings
Green lacewings belong to the insect family Chrysopidae and are one of several families called lacewing. They are the most common form of lacewing with over 1200 different species worldwide…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Rove Beetle
Rove beetles belong to the family Staphylinidae, one of the largest family of beetles, with over sixty thousand species worldwide and over three thousand species in North America. Since there…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Damselfly
Damselflies belong to a group of insects that have very small antennae, very large eyes, two pairs of transparent wings, and colorful elongated bodies. There are over 2500 species of…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Robber Flies
Also called assassin flies, these true flies belong to the Asilidae family. There are over seven thousand different species in the family, with over one thousand in North American where…
Beneficial Insects and how to Attract Them: Praying Mantids
Mantids, also known as praying mantises, are a group of insects that include about twenty different species in North America where they live grasselands, meadows shrublands, and gardens . The…
Beneficial Insects and how to Attract Them: Tachinid Flies
There are over 1300 species of tachinid fly in North America, all belonging to the family Tachinidae from which they get their common name. Most trachinid larvae are non-selective parasites…
Beneficial Insects: Yellow Jackets
If you have ever been chased and stung by a yellow jacket you must be surprised that the title of this post suggests that they are good insects. The truth…