Image | Name | Description |
- | Bee | Beneficial/Neutral. Pollinates flowers. Cucumbers don't need pollination, but tomatoes need pollination for fruition. |
- | Earwig | Neutral. Eats some insects and plants, but not harmful to cucumbers/tomatoes. |
- | Grasshopper | Detrimental. Eats plants. |
- | Ladybug | Beneficial. Eats something bad (need to ask Kyra). |
- | Phytoseiulus persimilis | Beneficial. Eats spider mites. |
- | Spider | Neutral. Eats both beneficial bugs and pests. |
- | Spider mite | Detrimental. Lays eggs and produces webs on plant leaves to suffocate the plant to death. |
Whitefly | Detrimental. Releases toxic saliva when feed on phloem, which cause the plant to lose tugor pressure. Carries diseases to infect plants. | |
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Beneficial Insects vs. Pests
Some bugs inflict damage on plants, and some bugs supplement plants' well-being. The following table shows the type of bugs and what they do to the plants.
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