Content related to the sectors: horticulture

Ladybirds commonly eat aphids and scale insects and are important for biocontrol.

Learn how to encourage flower and pirate bugs, damsel bugs and assassin bugs.

Learn about the biology and benefits of encouraging centipedes.

Learn how to identify and encourage robber flies.

Learn about the identification and life cycle of long-legged flies.

Balloon and dagger flies can predate many field pests, including aphids and thrips.

Dance flies are predators of aphids and midges and can be encouraged in field crops.

Learn about dung flies and how to encourage them.

Learn about the diversity of gall midges and how some can be used as natural enemies.

Find out how to encourage hoverflies as natural enemies of field pests.

Learn to identify and know the benefits of encouraging lacewings.

Various Hymenoptera species are important as natural enemies of field pests.