1. Good and Bad Bugs in Your Garden Thomas J. Weissling Assistant Professor of Entomology University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research

2. More than 1 million species of insects world-wide

3. Over 13,000 species of insects known from Florida New species appear almost daily due to shipments of plants and other materials into Florida from abroad

4. Beneficial or not considered to be pests (> 99%) Less than 1% Considered to be pests Of all insect species in the world

5. Pests can be separated by the type of mouthparts they possess which dictates they type of damage they do. Most common type of mouthpart is chewing. Tear off pieces of tissue and eat it.

6. Typical damage inflicted on plants by pests with chewing mouthparts

7. Another common type of mouthpart is piercing/sucking (This is a good bug)

8. Typical damage inflicted on plants by pests with sucking mouthparts

9. Some common yard and garden pest with piercing/sucking mouthparts Aphids

11. Some Things That Eat Aphids (Good Bugs)

13. Aphid Mummies

14. Whitefly Adult UF - IFAS

15. Whitefly Nymphs UF - IFAS

16. A few good bugs that eat whiteflies

17. Scale Insects

18. Armored Scales: Florida Red Scale UF - IFAS

19. Cycad Scale

20. Soft Scale: Green Scale UF - IFAS

21. Soft Scales: Hemispherical Scale

22. Scale predators and parasites

24. Mealybugs UF - IFAS

25. Twospotted Spider Mite UF - IFAS

26. Spider-Mite Webbing UF - IFAS

27. Predatory Mite

28. Chinch Bugs

29. Some common yard and garden pest with chewing mouthparts

30. Oleander Caterpillar, Syntomeida epilais

31. Bagworm

32. Io Moth Caterpillar UF - IFAS

33. Saddleback Caterpillar UF - IFAS

34. Eastern Lubber Grasshopper UF - IFAS Bad Bug…. Very, very bad bug

35. Palm Leaf Skeletonizer

36. Garden Slug

37. White Grubs

39. Mole Crickets

40. Mole Cricket Damage

41. Tropical Sod Webworm

44. Red Imported Fire Ant Probably the most hated insect in the entire state.

45. The Queen

46. Phorid Fly Imported from Brazil

48. Phorid Fly egg hatches and migrates to and feeds on ants head which leads to….

50. Spiders Most are beneficial... a few are poisonous

51. Southern Black Widow UF - IFAS

52. Red Widow Spider UF - IFAS

53. Brown Widow Spider UF - IFAS

56. Author: Tom Weissling, University of Florida Photos: University of Florida University of California Entomology And Nematology Department Copyright University of Florida 2000 For more detailed information see the Featured Creatures WWW site at http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/