Beneficial insects of crops

in r2cornell •  2 years ago 

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Just as there are harmful insects in the crop field, there are also beneficial insects. Insects that do more good than harm to humans and crops. Cropland has many beneficial insects that eat harmful insects, destroy eggs, injure, interfere with reproduction, live on others, destroy young, disturb pests, etc.

Lady Bird Beetle:

Both adult lady beetles and young beetles protect crops from damage by eating small insects and eggs of brown planthoppers, white-spotted grasshoppers, caterpillars, mealybugs, and other insects.

Carabid beetles:

They are both rice plant brown grasshoppers. White pit plants prey on grasshoppers, leafhoppers, caterpillars, and other insects.

grasshopper:

This insect preys on the eggs and young of maggots, spider mites, treehoppers and leafhoppers. They can eat 3-4 yellow caterpillar egg masses daily.

Damsel fly:

Damsel fly larvae live in water and can climb up rice plants to feed on a variety of leafhoppers and treehoppers. The adult flies under rice plant leaves and preys on a variety of insects.

the spider:

Spiders feed on insect eggs, worms, pupae and adults. They usually feed on ground beetles, grasshoppers, leafhoppers and flies in rice fields. There are some spiders that hunt without webbing. There are others who hunt for nets.
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