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.