Sleep Tight While Beneficial Insects Police Your Garden

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 ♥.
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.
Yellow Jackets	Caterpillars
Photo by audreyjm529.	Fly larvae
	Grasshopper larvae