Beneficial Insects

Aphytis melinus is a tiny wasp parasite that is effective on several different kinds of scale, including: red scale, yellow scale, oleander scale, and dictyospermum scale.

Beneficial Nematodes (Steinernema feltiae) attack over 230 kinds of soil dwelling and wood boring pests, such as cutworms, corn root worms, flea larvae, white grubs, strawberry weevils, gypsy moth larvae, cabbage root maggots, fungus gnat larvae,

Cryptolaemus are often called Mealybug Destroyers because of their voracious appetite for mealybugs! Their first choice is mealybugs, but they also eat aphids, immature scale, and immature whitefly.

Decollate Snails attack brown garden snails and eat them! And rather than slime around on walkways, they prefer to remain just under the surface which keeps them out of sight.

Delphastus is a small, shiny, black beetle, about one quarter the size of a ladybug (and closely related), that feeds on several species of whitefly including greenhouse, sweet potato (silverleaf), and avocado whitefly.