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Some garden bugs are helpful in your garden while others just come for the free salad

Good Bugs (these insects prey on bugs that eat your garden plants) Ladybird beetles (ladybugs): both the adult and the larvae eat aphids, scale insects, and spider mites Lacewing larvae (also called aphid lions) are grayish-brown and about 3/8-inch long. They eat aphids, scale insects, mites, and insect eggs Praying mantids are especially good at eating meadow and pasture insects such as crickets and grasshoppers Dragonflies eat mosquitoes and other flies Ground beetles feed on caterpillars that attack trees and shrubs. Unwanted Bugs Aphids are very small, green or black insects that cluster on stems and under leaves. They will eat any kind of leaf Japanese beetles are metallic green/copper colored and about 1/2-inch long. Larvae eat the roots while adults devour the leaves of almost any plant Mites and spider mites are so small you can barely see them; look for webbing as a sign of infestation. They feed on most indoor plants, some fruit trees and evergreens Scales look like bumpy bark or fine ash on branches of fruit trees and shrubs. They weaken the plants they attack by sucking out the sap.

For more information, check these resources: Pennsylvania Integrated Pest Management (http://paipm.cas.psu.edu) Dead Snails Leave No Trails by Loren Nancarrow & Janet Hogan Taylor. Ten Speed Press; Berkeley, CA; 1996 Good Bugs For Your Garden by Allison Mia Starcher. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, NC; 1998