Biology & their interesting facts

Beneficial Insects for Natural Garden Pest Control

  • Aphid Midges
  • Braconid Wasps
  • Beautifully Daring Dragonflies
  • Damsel Bugs
  • Great Green Lacewings
  • Ground Beetles
  • Helpful Honey Bees
  • Hover Flies
  • Lovely Little Ladybugs
  • Minute Pirate Bugs
  • Parasitic Wasps
  • Predatory Beetles
  • Predatory Mites
  • Proud Praying Mantises
  • Spiders
  • Squirmy Old Earthworms
  • Tachinid Flies

Ants

  • Acrobat Ant
  • Argentine Ant
  • Carpenter Ant
  • Crazy Ant
  • Field Ant
  • Ghost Ant
  • Harvester Ant
  • Leaf-cutting Ant
  • Little Black Ant
  • Lawn Ant
  • Odorous House Ant
  • Pavement Ant
  • Pharaoh Ant
  • Pyramid Ant
  • Red Imported Fire Ant
  • Shiny black wood ant
  • Thief Ant
  • White-footed Ant
  • Yellow Ant

Bed Bugs

  • Cimex hemipterus
  • Cimex lectularius
  • Leptocimex boueti

Birds

  • Pigeon
  • Woodpecker
  • European Starling

Cockroaches

  • American Cockroach
  • Brown-Banded Cockroach
  • German Cockroach
  • Oriental Cockroach

Fleas

  • Cat Flea
  • Dog Flea
  • Human Flea
  • Rat Flea

Flies

  • Calf Cutter Fly
  • Cluster Fly
  • Fruit Fly
  • Gold Fly
  • Grey meat Fly
  • Ham Fly
  • Hose Fly
  • House Fly
  • Throwing Fly
  • Vinegar Fly

Lice

  • Dust Lice
  • Head Lice

Mites

  • Autumn Mite / Harvest Mite
  • Bird Mite
  • Chicken Mite / Red Poultry Mite
  • Flour Mite
  • House Dust Mite
  • House Mite
  • Scabies Mite

Mosquitoes

  • Anopheles
  • Butterfly Mosquitoes
  • Coquillettidia
  • Culex
  • Culiseta
  • Deinocerites
  • Mansonia
  • Mourning Mosquitoes
  • Ochlerotatus
  • Orthopodomyia
  • Psorophora
  • Toxorhynchites
  • Uranotaenia
  • Wyeomyia

Rodents

  • Deer Mice
  • House Mice
  • Large Vole
  • Norway Rat
  • Pack Rat
  • Roof Rat
  • White-Footed Mice

Spiders

  • Black Widow Spider
  • Brown Recluse
  • Hobo Spider
  • House Spider
  • Jumping Spider
  • Long Bodied Cellar Spider
  • Wolf Spider

Stinging Insects

  • Africanized Bee
  • Asian Giant Hornet
  • Bald-faced Hornet
  • Bumble Bee
  • Carpenter Bee
  • European Hornet
  • Honey Bee
  • Open Pipe Mud Dauber
  • Paper Wasp
  • Velvet Ant
  • Yellow Jacket

Termites

  • Conehead Termite
  • Dampwood Termite
  • Drywood Termite
  • Formosan Termite
  • Subterranean Termite

Ticks

  • American Dog Tick
  • Blacklegged Tick
  • Brown Dog Tick
  • Lone Star Tick
  • Pigeon Tick
  • Rocky Mountain Wood Tick
  • Soft Tick
  • Wooden Buck

Post-Harvest Storage Pests

BEETLES

  • Brown Sapwood Beetle
  • Ball Beetle
  • Brass Beetle
  • Bread Beetle
  • Cereal Beetle
  • Cereal Flat Beetle
  • Common Bacon Beetle
  • Common Rodent Beetle / Dead Clock
  • Corn Beetle
  • Eating Bean Beetle
  • Grain Weevil
  • Flour Beetle
  • Herbal Thief
  • House Long-horn Beetle
  • Khapra Beetle
  • Red-brown groin-headed beetle
  • Red-brown rice flour Beetle
  • Red-Legged Ham Beetle
  • Rice Beetle
  • Spotted Fur Beetle
  • Tobacco Beetle
  • Woolly Flower Beetle

MOTHS

  • Clothes Moth
  • Cork Moth
  • Corn Moth
  • Flour Moth
  • Fur Moth
  • Grain Moth
  • Indian Meal Moth
  • Storage Moth

Other occasional Invaders and Nuisance Wildlife

  • Boxelder Bug
  • Camel Cricket
  • Centipede
  • Earwig
  • Flying Squirrel
  • Groundhog
  • House Grille
  • House Cricket
  • Kissing Bug
  • Maggots
  • Millipede
  • Periodical Cicada
  • Pillbug
  • Powder Beetle
  • Prairie Dog
  • Scorpion
  • Silverfish
  • Snails / Slugs
  • Spotted Lanternfly
  • Springtail
  • Stink Bug
  • Red Cotton Bug
  • Tree Squirrel
  • Varied Carpet Beetle

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