Rosefiend Cordell - Beneficial and Pest Insects

BENEFICIAL AND PEST INSECTS

BENEFICIAL AND PEST INSECTS

The Good, the Bad, and the Hungry

The Hungry Garden series #3

Rosefiend Cordell

Rosefiend Publishing.

BENEFICIAL AND PEST INSECTS

Copyright 2021 by Rosefiend Cordell, aka Melinda R. Cordell

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ISBN: 978-1953196538

First Edition: June 2021

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A Quick Overview of the Insects in This Book

And the Order They Belong To

O donota

Dragonflies and damselflies

Orthoptera

Grasshoppers

Crickets

Diptera

Fungus gnats

Mosquitoes

Flies

Hemiptera

True bugs

Aphids

Tarnished plant bug

Four-lined plant bug

Big-eyed bugs

Squash bugs

Stink bugs

Scale

Whitefly

Mealybugs

Wheel bugs

Assassin bugs

Thysanoptera

Thrips

Coleoptera

Beetles

Colorado potato beetle

Cucumber beetle

Ladybugs

Mexican bean beetle

Flea beetle

Japanese beetle

Asparagus beetle

Wireworms

Weevils

Emerald ash borer

Hymenoptera

Ants, bees, wasps

Wasps

Cicada killers

Leaf-cutter bees

Lepidoptera

Butterflies and moths

Cabbage maggot

Cutworms

Bagworms

Leaf miner

Codling moth

Corn borer

Corn earworms

Cabbage caterpillars

Tomato hornworm

Cabbage looper

Neuroptera

Lacewings

Mantodea

Mantids

Praying mantis

Thysanoptera

Thrips

Hemiptera

True bugs

Aphids

Tarnished plant bug

Four-lined plant bug

Squash bugs

Stink bugs

Scale

Whitefly

Mealybugs

CRITTERS THAT ARE NOT INSECTS

Arachnids (includes spiders, mites, scorpions, and most recently, horseshoe crabs, no lie)

Mites

Spider mites

Gastropods

Snails and slugs

INTRODUCTION