Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects: Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Karen This clump-forming, long-lived, herbaceous perennial is native to eastern North America where it tends to grow on dry soil in full sun . It is a member of the dogbane…
Beneficial Insects and How To Attract Them: Damsel Bugs
There are over five hundred species of damsel bugs worldwide, forty of which are found in North America. They belong to the insect family Nabidae and the most common ones…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Ground Beetles
Ground beetles are members of the Carabidae family of insect with about forty thousand species worldwide, two thousand of which live in North America. They are variable in size and…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Soldier Beetle
Soldier beetles belong to the Cantharidae family of insects with about four hundred seventy species in North America. They are also known as leatherwings because of their tough wing covers…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Minute Pirate Bugs
Minute pirate bugs are predatory insects belonging to the Anthocoridae family. There are up to six hundred species worldwide of which about seventy species occur in North America. Most are…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Big-Eyed Bugs (Geocordiae spp.)
There are over twenty five species of bug-eyed bugs in North America some of which live coast to coast in the US. They are tiny but very abundant and considered…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Green Lacewings
Green lacewings belong to the insect family Chrysopidae and are one of several families called lacewing. They are the most common form of lacewing with over 1200 different species worldwide…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Rove Beetle
Rove beetles belong to the family Staphylinidae, one of the largest family of beetles, with over sixty thousand species worldwide and over three thousand species in North America. Since there…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Damselfly
Damselflies belong to a group of insects that have very small antennae, very large eyes, two pairs of transparent wings, and colorful elongated bodies. There are over 2500 species of…
Beneficial Insects and How to Attract Them: Robber Flies
Also called assassin flies, these true flies belong to the Asilidae family. There are over seven thousand different species in the family, with over one thousand in North American where…