What's your pest?

Small green insect on light green plant stem, blurred background.

Aphids

Small brown and black beetle with segmented body on a textured surface.

Carpophilus beetles

Caterpillar with brown, cream stripes, black spots on a green leaf.

Caterpillars

Translucent mite on a textured brown surface, with a rounded body and fine legs visible.

Chicken mites

Insect larva inside light green leaf with winding leaf mining trails.

Citrus leafminer

Clothes moths

Fruit fly with brown body and yellow markings perched on a green leaf, red eyes visible.

Fruit flies

Fungus gnats and shore flies

Citrus mealybug (Photo: Dan Papacek)

Mealybug

Stable fly (Photo: Pia Scanlon DAFWA)

Nuisance flies

Olive lace bug

Pantry moth

Red scale life stages on citrus (photo Dan Papacek)

Scale insects

Californicus predatory mite feeding on two-spotted spider mite eggs. (Photo: Dan Papacek)

Spider mites

Adult western flower flower thrips (Photo source: www.pestnet.org)

Thrips

Adult whitefly

Whiteflies

Disclaimer:

While we make every effort to supply you with beneficial insects and mites to help improve your pest management, and to reduce the need for pesticides, we cannot guarantee the outcome in every situation.  Our biocontrol agents do feed readily on the species that we have specified in our tech sheets and on our website.  However, there are many variables including accurate pest identification, plant species, pest density, numbers of beneficials released, environmental conditions and history of pesticide usage that influence the outcomes.  We will always do our best to help you achieve a positive outcome but we simply cannot guarantee that your problem will be solved to your satisfaction.  Because every situation is unique we are constantly learning about how best to use our good bugs.  We appreciate any feedback from your experience.

The entomology team, Bugs for Bugs.