Garden Notes
Beneficial Bugs, Soldier Bug

Garden expert Tonya Ashworth talks about soldier bugs. Soldier bugs eat many harmful insects including corn borer, corn earworm, gypsy moth caterpillar, cabbage looper, flea beetle, Colorado potato beetle, fall armyworm, and Mexican bean beetle. The adult and four out of five nymph stages are predacious. They feed by piercing their prey and sucking out the juices.

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December 19, 2020