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Beneficial Insects

A photo of a flower fly, looking quite like a bee itself, pollinating a Black-Eyed Susan flower.
5 Beneficial Insects for Farms and Gardens
Leaf cutter bees have snipped multiple disc-sized pieces from these pink Clarkia aomena flowers
Nature Notes: Snapshots of the Wildlife in our Gardens
An Aphaenogaster ant grabbing a large seed to carry back to its nest. They are a reddish-copper color, with a narrow constriction between their thorax and abdomen, and two spines on the back of the thorax.
Myrmecochory: How Ants Shape Plant Communities
The underside of a leaf with several round growths that are a splotchy red in color.
Are My Plants Okay? How to Respond To Insects and Diseases in Trees and Shrubs
Wasp laying eggs in a gypsy moth caterpillar
Parasitoids Are an Important Part of Our Food Web, Too
white clover as cover crop
Pollinator Friendly Cover Cropping for Vegetable Farmers
lacey phacelia
Midsummer Management of Crop Pests and Pollinators
Monarch larvae on showy milkweed, roadside in Idaho.
Xerces Introduces New Searchable Systemic Insecticides Reference
Two women stand beside a farm field. One has a black shirt and pale brown pant. The other black pants and a pale brown shirt and is wearing a broad-brimmed hat and carries an orange bag. A strip of brown grass stretches down the edge of the field. Beside the field is an orchard of trees with white trunks and green leaves. In the distance is a green barn and houses with red roofs, and beyond them hills rising toward the blue sky.
The Value of Conservation Planning
A farm landscape showing brown stubble of corn in fields surrounding a wetland pond. The water appears dark blue, reflecting the gray clouds in the blue sky.
Insecticide Seed Treatments Threaten Midwestern Waterways
A photo that shows a cross section of soil on the side of a pit. The soil is dark brown and crumbling into lumps. The upper part of the photo shows the pale brown straw of the crop growing in the field, and the scuffed brown boots of a farmer.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – August 2021
A flower bed beside a street in a downtown. The flowers include purple asters and yellow coneflowers. Behind are large mirrored glass windows of a store, which reflect the buildings opposite.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – July 2021
The long coiled body of a brown centipede shines against the dark soil
The Actual Earth of Earth Week
Well wrapped against the winter weather, two people walk across a snow-covered field of stubble scattering wildflower seed
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – February 2021
A group of farmers stand between a crop field and flowering meadow listening to a presenter speaking about how to plan habitat for insects.
A group of farmers stand between a crop field and flowering meadow listening to a presenter speaking about how to plan habitat for insects.
On-farm habitat for beneficial insects provides multiple benefits
On a sunny day with blue sky, five people stand talking together in the foreground of a beautiful landscape. Behind them is a pear orchard, and beyond is the snow-covered, triangular form of Mt. Hood.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest - January 2020
Colorful blooms of blue, red, and yellow blanket the rows between newly-planted saplings.
Starting from Scratch: New Hampshire Farm Dives into Conservation Biological Control
In this landscape image, rows of green, leafy trees are on the left, and on the right are blossoming cover crops of various colors. There is also blue sky and puffy clouds to round out this idyllic scene.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – October 2019
People are crouched, planting native species in a new beetle bank in Iowa.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – August 2019
A group of people gather around a patch of blooming pollinator plants.
Reflecting on a Multi-Year Conservation Biological Control Project
Young community scientists planting.
Community Scientists Take on the Cultivar Conundrum
National Championship winner of Baller Beneficials, the zebra jumpers.
Baller Beneficials! The 2019 Xerces Society Division 1 Beneficial Insect Championship
Closeup of beautiful, layered pink and white petals.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – October 2018
Red-and-green apples are clustered on a tree branch.
Celebrate Invertebrates During National Apple Month
 

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