Beneficial
This beneficial insect has light green, see-through wings and is known for eating aphids.
What is the Green Lacewing?
This destructive beetle is metallic green with copper‑brown wings and skeletonizes leaves.
What is the Japanese Beetle?
This pest feeds on the underside of bean leaves, causing small, round holes and spreading disease.
What is the Bean Leaf Beetle?
Planting resistant hybrids is a key prevention method for this pest that damages corn ears.
What is the Corn Earworm?
This ¼‑inch destructive beetle is brown with a dark stripe and feeds on alfalfa.
What is the Alfalfa Weevil
This beneficial insect has a striped yellow & black body and pollinates crops while collecting nectar.
What is the Honey-bee?
This destructive pest is brown with a dark dorsal stripe and has a distinct beak‑like snout used to feed on alfalfa.
What is the Alfalfa Weevil?
This pest skeletonizes leaves, eating everything except the veins and margins.
What is the Beet Armyworm?
Crop rotation is one of the most effective ways to prevent this striped potato‑feeding beetle.
What is the Colorado Potato Beetle?
This insect ranges from ½ to 2 inches long and has large, powerful hind legs used for jumping long distances.
What is the Grasshopper?
This beneficial larva has an elongated gray or black body with orange spotting and resembles a tiny alligator.
What is the Lady Beetle Larva?
This destructive beetle has black and yellow stripes and lays eggs under potato leaves.
What is the Colorado Potato Beetle?
This pest chews a complete hole at the base of the corn stalk, causing plants to break.
What is the Corn Borer?
Keeping a clean lawn helps prevent this soft‑bodied beetle with cylindrical wings.
What is the Blister Beetle?
This ¼–½ inch beetle is yellow, brown, or green with black spots on its head and thorax, a pattern unique to elm feeders.
What is the Elm Leaf Beetle?
This beneficial adult insect is yellow, orange, or red with black spots and is known for controlling aphids.
What is the Lady Bird Beetle?
This destructive pest is known for tunneling inside plant stems, especially during its larval stage.
What is the Borer?
This pest can cut off rice panicles at the base and destroy entire fields during outbreaks.
What is the Armyworm Larva?
Cutting alfalfa early in the bud stage helps prevent damage from this brown weevil with a dark stripe.
What is the Alfalfa Weevil?
This 1–1.5 inch larva is green with a white stripe on each side and forms a distinct loop when it crawls.
What is the Cabbage Looper?
This beneficial insect helps control pests like alfalfa weevils and is known for laying eggs inside host insects.
What is the Parasitic Wasp?
This destructive cotton pest has tiny spines covering its body and chews holes in cotton bolls.
What is the Bollworm?
This pest causes cosmetic damage to corn ears, making them unmarketable even before full destruction.
What is the Corn Earworm?
Plowing to expose larvae to predators is a key method for controlling this pest that cuts young plants at the soil line.
What is the Cutworm?
This 1.25‑inch larva is olive‑green or black with a yellow stripe down each side and is known for feeding on the tops of leaves as it matures.
What is the Beet Armyworm