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Braconid wasps, damsel bugs, green lacewings, ground beetles, hover flies, lady bird beetles, minute pirate bugs, praying mantises, tachinid flies and wheel bugs are 10 examples of beneficial insects. The first five together control aphids, cabbage worms, cutworms, hornworms, leafhoppers, mealybugs, mites, potato beetles, scale and slugs. The second five decrease populations of aphids, cutworms, fleas, gypsy moths, Japanese beetles, mites, potato beetles, spider mites, squash bugs and thrips.
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How are insects beneficial to man?
Some insects are good for keeping crops healthy and thus are beneficial to man instead of using pesticides to get rid of annyoing insects, certain insects acutally eat those annyoing insects
What has the author Herbert Osborn written?
Herbert Osborn has written: 'Meadow and pasture insects' -- subject(s): Insects, Injurious and beneficial, Injurious and beneficial Insects 'The Fulgoridae of Ohio' -- subject(s): Fulgoridae, Hemiptera 'Agricultural entomology for students, farmers, fruit-growers and gardeners' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Injurious and beneficial Insects, Insects, Insects, Injurious and beneficial, Insect pests, Beneficial insects 'Insects affecting domestic animals' -- subject(s): Injurious and beneficial Insects, Domestic animals, Insectes nuisibles, Parasites, Animaux domestiques 'Cicadellidae of Hawaii' -- subject(s): Hemiptera, Leafhoppers 'Recent insect invasions in Ohio' -- subject(s): Insects, Insects, Injurious and beneficial, Injurious and beneficial Insects 'The Membracidae of Ohio' -- subject(s): Membracidae, Hemiptera 'Studies of life histories of froghoppers of Maine' -- subject(s): Cercopidae 'Fragments of entomological history, including some personal recollections of men and events' -- subject(s): Insects, Entomologists 'The genus Phlepsius in North America (Homoptra)' -- subject(s): Phlepsius
What has the author Vincenz Kollar written?
Vincenz Kollar has written: 'A treatise on insects injurious to gardeners, foresters, & farmers' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Injurious and beneficial Insects, Insects, Injurious and beneficial
What has the author A L Winfield written?
A. L. Winfield has written: 'Insecticides and beneficial insects' -- subject(s): Injurious and beneficial Insects, Insecticides 'Bean seed flies'
What are some benefits of insets?
Some benefits of insects are: pollination of plants by some insects, some beneficial insects eat other, harmful insects.
What has the author George Pearson Holland written?
George Pearson Holland has written: 'The siphonaptera of Canada' -- subject(s): Fleas, Injurious and beneficial Insects, Insects, Injurious and beneficial
What has the author Paul Knight written?
Paul Knight has written: 'The problems of insect study' -- subject(s): Agricultural pests, Injurious and beneficial Insects, Insects, Injurious and beneficial
What has the author W Dwight Pierce written?
W. Dwight Pierce has written: 'Notes on insects of the order Strepsiptera' -- subject(s): Strepsiptera 'Sanitary entomology' -- subject(s): Control, Injurious and beneficial Insects, Insect pests, Insects as carriers of disease, Beneficial insects
Is the existence of insects required to maintian life on earth?
Yes, as they provide many beneficial functions. A couple of examples are the pollination of food crops, and as important important members of the food chain. There are many insects that are beneficial to both humans and plant life. For example: * Some insects are beneficial to farmers and gardeners since they eat other insects that are harmful to plants. One example is the ladybug; they eat aphids that can kill many plants. Some farmers have begun "going green" in raising their crops by bringing in the insects that eat the ones that harm plants. This allows them to raise crops with out harmful poisons. * Dragonflies eat mosquitoes, which we all know are harmful to both humans and animals.
What are 5 examples of how water is beneficial or harmful?
examples of harmful liquids
Are damselflies pests?
No. Damselflies are considered beneficial, as they eat insects such as mosquitoes.
Do spider destroy crops?
No, if anything they are beneficial since their diet is insects.
