Transcript Lady bugs
BENFICAL’S
insects
Lady bugs
Orange and reddish with black markings
and oval body, The prey on aphids scale,
mealy bugs
Praying mantids
Feed on a wide verity of insects flies,
honeybees, crickets and moths. Brown
and other are green.
Assassin bugs
Black or brown ½ length , caterpillars are
their favorite prey.
Lace wing
Greenish and copper colored eyes, feed
primary on aphids.
Parasitic wasps
Less than 1/8 long eats scales, whiteflies,
aphids, leaf miners and caterpillars.
Spiders
Eight legs
Feed among a wide variety of insects
PIERCING- SUCKING
MOUTHPARTS
insects
Scales
Soft and armored scales 1/16 to ½ in
diameter
Mealy bugs
Like to eat foliage plants and some woody
plants, soft bodied scales insect
Aphids
Plant lice, are small soft bodied, pear
shaped insects with sucking mouth parts
White flies
Tiny white moth, more related to scales
insects 1/16 long have 4 wings covered in
white powdery ways.
Lace bug
small, broad, flat insects 1/8 long bodies
are usually brown.
Thrips
Small slender insects with rasping sucking
mouth parts used to remove plant juices.
1/25 to 1/8 body is yellow and brown.
CHEWING PESTS
insects
Caterpillars
Immature or larva stage. 2in long vary in
color, devour the foliage.
Cut worms
Larva that stays in the soil during the day
and feed at night. Eat leaves
Grass hopper
Consume large quantities of foliage
deposit eggs in the ground
Katy dids
Are green and feed at night.
Beetles
Hard shelled insects with chewing mouth
parts , range in size, chew plants with
foliage
OTHER INSECTS
Spider mites
Mature spider mites 1/50 inches in length.
Smaller green with two dark spots.
Leaf miners
Are small larva flies ,beetles, love to dig
through leaf and foliage.
Boars
Like to in bed in palm trees.
Are small brown hairy insects.