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How to Manage Pests

Pests in Gardens and Landscapes

Natural enemies

Blister mites have many natural enemies that limit their numbers in many landscapes and gardens, especially when undisturbed by pesticide sprays. Some of the most effective are the predatory mites. Various insects are also useful predators -- the sixspotted thrips, the larvae and adults of the spider mite destroyer lady beetle, and various general predators such as green lacewings, damsel bugs, assassin bugs, bigeyed bugs, minute pirate bugs, soldier beetles, ground beetles, and spiders.

Sixspotted thrips
Sixspotted thrips

Adult spider mite destroyer
Adult spider mite destroyer


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