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Garden Friends and Foes
Garden Friends - Bugs
These garden bugs eat the problem bugs in a garden.
| Dragonflies: | Eats mosquitoes, midges, and small moths. Large dragonflies may capture beneficial bees, butterflies or other dragonflies. |
| Hover/Syrphid Fly: | Feeds on aphids, mealybugs, and other small insects. |
| Lacewings: | Eats aphids, whiteflies, thrips and mites. |
| Ladybugs: | Eats aphids, mealybugs, scales, psyllids, eggs of the potato beetle and other insects. |
 
photo by Jack Clark Photo by Jack Clark
Adult convergent lady beetle Predaceous larva of convergent Lady beetle.
feeding on aphids.
| Fireflies: | Eats snails and slugs. |
| Parasitic Wasps: | Eats a variety of caterpillars, beetle larvae, files, aphids, and moths. |
| Praying Mantid: | Eats anything that it comes upon, including each other. |
| Predatory Mite: | Feeds on two-spotted spider mites in all of its stages, from egg to adult. |
| Soldier Beetles: | Preys on cutworms, gypsy moth larvae, slugs and snails. |
| Spiders: | Kills anything they capture. |
Garden Friends - Plants
Plants that repel or help to control garden pests.
| Basil: | Helps control tomato hornworms. |
| Thyme: | Controls flea beetles, cabbage worms and white cabbage butterflies. |
Thymus
| Marigold/Mums: | Produces a scent that repels many garden pests. |
| Mint: | Repels mosquitoes. Odor disliked by aphids and cabbage pest. |
| Garlic: | Can protect roses from black spot (fungus disease). Grown in rings to repel aphids. |
Garden Pests – Bugs
Bugs you don’t want in your garden. Follow the IPM steps, described on the Pest page.
| Aphids: | Destroys plants by sucking the sap from stems or leaves. Can transmit plant diseases. |
| Garden Slug: | Rasp on leaves, stems, flowers and roots (small seedlings are especially vulnerable). |
Imported
| Cabbageworm: | Attacks cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, radish and turnip plants. |
| Scale Insects: | Attacks a variety of plants including ornamentals, houseplants and fruits. Secretes honeydew that attracts aphids. |
photo by Jack Kelly Clark
Scale colony
| Spider mites: | Sucks the contents of individual plant cells. |
Striped
| Cucumber Beetle: | Eats young cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and melons. Adults feed on leaves, vines, and fruit. Transmits bacterial wilt disease. |
| Whiteflies: | Attack many garden plants, including tomatoes. |
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