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Beneficial Insects

These are insects that help control the population of harmful pests like aphids, scale, mealybug, and many others. We usually stock these seasonally in the spring.

Ladybugs
Lady bugs prefer to eat aphids and will devour up to 50 a day, but they will also attack scale, mealy bugs, boil worms, leafhopper, and corn ear worm. They dine only on insects and do not harm vegetation in any way.

Praying Mantids
In their younger stages they eat aphids, thrips, flies and maggots, small caterpillars, leafhoppers, white grubs and other soft-bodied insects. Mature Mantids feed on larger caterpillars, earwigs, chinch bugs, sow bugs, beetles, grasshoppers and other large insects.

Green Lacewing / Ladybug Combo
Green Lacewings (Chrysoperla carnea) are predators of many species of pest insects and mites. These attractive pale green insects are an effective natural enemy of aphids, mites, whiteflies, mealbugs, leafhoppers, thrips, all types of moth and butterfly eggs, and caterpillars.

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