Beneficial Insects
  • Robber Fly (family Asilidae). Robber flies are strong, hairy, active, predatory flies. Most victims are captured mid-flight. Nearly any flying insect is potential dinner, including, other flies, bees, beetles, moths, butterflies, grasshoppers.
  • Drosophila A few species of Drosophila have switched to being parasites or predators. Drosophila are prey for many generalist predators such as robber flies.
  • Spiders are predators by eating insects. Common prey include crickets, flies, bees, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies.
  • Spiders Sandalodes bipenicillatus spider.
  • Spiders Diaea evanida spider.
  • Spiders The egg sacs of the araneid Ordgarius furcatus spider.
  • Spiders Garden Orb Weaver spider.
  • Spiders Spiders are predators by eating lots of insects.
  • Spiders Spiders are predators by eating lots of insects.
  • Hoverfly Wasp
  • Hoverfly Wasp
  • Wasp Paper wasp nest. Gathering fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva to construct water-resistant nests made of grey or brown papery material. These wasps are beneficial in their natural habitat and are critically important in natural biocontrol on caterpillars, flies and beetles.