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This Insect’s Paralyzing Saliva Makes It a Green Garden Assassin — and One You Want Around

Nicknamed “aphid wolves,” lacewings are beneficial insects with a voracious appetite for common pests. These generalist predators consume various prey in their larval and adult stages. Surprisingly, ...
Marin Independent Journal

Garden tip: Green lacewing, a common beneficial insect

Some people believe that all bugs are bad. Other people only know there are beneficial insects, such as the ladybug (Hippodamia convergens) as well as green lacewings (Chrysopa or Chrysoperla species) ...
Fort Morgan Times

Colorado Master Gardener Leslie Weinsheim: Good garden insects to know and to keep around

Did you know that more than 97% of all insects in your garden are beneficial and help your garden flourish? I didn’t know this until I began working on this article! Most insects either help pollinate ...
WMUR

Grow it Green: Beneficial insects

HERE AND THERE. LET’S HEAD TO GREEN. WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROW GREEN WHERE AT BLUE SEAL AND MILFORD. AND I’M JOINED BY RACHEL MAZZINI FROM UNHCR EXTENSION AND RACHEL, IT MAY SEEM LIKE A KIND OF A ...
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Meet the Katydid: The Bug That Looks Like a Leaf

A recent Journal of Orthoptera Research article describes two newly identified katydid species endemic to the southern Appalachian Mountains. The study examined the morphology and acoustic behaviors ...