Beneficial Insects

Ladybirds will feed on aphids, whiteflies and mites.

Each adult can eat as many as 5,000 aphids during it's adult life and can lay up to four dozen eggs each day. When

the eggs hatch each hatchling can eat up to 50 aphids until they reach the adult stage.

Bees help to pollinate flowering plants and are the predominant type of pollinators in ecosystems that contain flowering plants.

The larvae of the Green Lacewing feed on spider mites, leafhoppers, whiteflies, thrips and caterpillar eggs.

Ground Beetles will kill and eat slugs and caterpillars.

They mainly feed at night and hide in the day to avoid being eaten by birds.

Wasps help in the pollination of plants. They are also useful in agricultural pest control.

Almost every pest insect species has a wasp species that is a predator or parasite upon it.

Hoverflies need to feed on the pollen of plants before laying their eggs in a colony of aphids.

When the larvae hatch they feed on the aphids and can eat up to 100 a day. The adults are also important for the

pollination of plants.