Check out your garden, if you see any of these, high five!!! These are the good guys!!
They need the bad guys in order to survive so don’t pray toxic pesticides or you will kill both the good guys and the bad guys and the bad guys will come back faster!
Natural enemies are animals that attack and feed on other animals such as an insect (e.g ladybird beetle), bird or spider feeding on pest insects. DBM caterpillar predated by ants (c) A.A. Seif
Aphid mummies on red cabbage (c) A.A. Seif
A parasitic fly on maize aphids (c) A.A. Seif
A lady bird beetle feeding on cereal aphids on maize (c) A.A. Seif
Lacewing
Braconid Wasp (c) Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
Tachinid Fly a parasitoid of caterpillars. Note brown fly puparium and dead caterpillar. (c) A.M Varela
Tachinid Fly a parasitoid of caterpillars. Note brown fly puparium and dead caterpillar. (c) A.M Varela
Amblyseius swirskii (c) Koppert Biological Systems
Mite Phytoseiulus longipes a predator of the tobacco spider mite real size -1mm (c) icipe
Predatory Thrips (c) A. M. Varela
Ants attacking a cut worm (c) A. M. Varela
Predatory Wasp (c) A. M. Varela
Rove Beetle (c) A. M. Varela, icipe
Hover fly adult (c) Jonny N.Dell, retired, Courtesy of Bugwood.org
Hover fly Su Kahumbu
Hover fly larva Close-up of larva preying on aphids. (c) Clemson University
Different types of assassin bugs on crops (c) A. M. Varela, icipe.
