Not all insects and animals in your garden are out to get you and your vegetables. Of course it’s annoying to have your plants eaten by caterpillars or infested with worms and borers, or if you get bitten by mosquitoes, but this is where you’ll get help from the beneficial animals. Take a look at the left column and be thankful for all the policing that goes on behind the scenes, when you have these in your garden:
| Beneficial animal | Attacks |
| Bats | Bugs |
| Birds | Beetles |
| Bugs | |
| Flies | |
| Moths | |
| Dragonflies | Mosquitoes |
| Anisoptera | |
 Photo by Krikit ♥. |
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| Frogs | Flies |
| Flying insects | |
| Moths | |
| Green Lacewing | Aphids |
| and larvae | Bugs |
| Neuroptera | Eggs |
 Photo by Anauxite. |
Leafhoppers |
| Mealybugs | |
| Mites | |
| Red Mites | |
| Scale insects | |
| Some caterpillars | |
| Some moth | |
| Spider-mites | |
| Thrips | |
| Whiteflies | |
| Hoverfly | Aphids |
| Syrphidae | Fruit tree spider-mites |
 Photo by tanakawho. |
Green Flies |
| Small Caterpillars | |
| Ladybug | Aphids (up to 100 in one day) |
| Coccinellidae | Mealybugs |
 Photo by joka2000(busy). |
Mites |
| Scale insects | |
| Small caterpillars | |
| Small soft-bodied insects | |
| Spider-mites | |
| Whiteflies | |
| Leafminer Parasite | Leafminer larvae |
| Diglyphus isaea | |
| Mealybug Destroyer | All species of mealybug |
| Cryptolaemus montrouzieri | Aphids |
| Soft scale | |
| Minute Pirate Bug | Aphids |
| Orius | Corn Earworm |
| Leafhoppers | |
| Scale insects | |
| Small caterpillars | |
| Spider-mites | |
| Thrips | |
| Parasite Wasp | Aphids |
| Trichogramma | Armyworm |
| Cabbage looper | |
| Cabbage worm | |
| Codling moth | |
| Corn borer | |
| Corn earworm | |
| Cut worm | |
| Leaf roller | |
| Moth eggs | |
| Tomato hornworm | |
| Predatory Mites | Pest Mites |
| Stethorus punctillum | Thrips |
| Rove Beetles | Aphids |
| Staphylinidae | Cabbage Maggots |
 Photo by dhobern. |
Onion Maggots |
| Root Maggot | |
| Slug eggs | |
| Snail eggs | |
| Springtails | |
| Soldier Beetles | Aphids |
| Cantharidae | Caterpillars |
 Photo by Anauxite. |
Cicadas |
| Corn Rootworms | |
| Cucumber Beetles | |
| Spiders | Grasshopper eggs |
| Spined Soldier Bug | > 100 different insect pests |
| Podisus maculiventris | Cabbage Loopers |
| Colorado Potato Beetles (larvae) | |
| Corn Earworms | |
| Flea Beetles | |
| Sawflies | |
| Tent Caterpillars | |
| Tachinid Flies | Armyworms |
 Photo by Gilles Gonthier. |
Caterpillars |
| Cornborers | |
| Cutworms | |
| Stinkbugs | |
| Thrips Predator | Mites |
| Amblyseius cucumeris | Thrips |
| Tiger Beetles | Soil-dwelling larvae |
| Cicindelinae | |
 Photo by .Larry Page. |
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| Yellow Jackets | Caterpillars |
 Photo by audreyjm529. |
Fly larvae |
| Grasshopper larvae |
