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Beneficial Garden Bugs of the SC Lowcountry

A guide to some of the common beneficial Insects(as well as Myriapods, Isopods, Molluscs) that you may encounter in your gardens.

All of the species in this guide either prey on other insects during one or more of its life stages, or is a detritivore, an organism that breaks down dead ...more ↓

Spotted Lady Beetle 1
Coleomegilla maculata
Ashy Gray Lady Beetle 2
Olla v-nigrum
Asian Lady Beetle 3
Harmonia axyridis
Convergent Lady Beetle 4
Hippodamia convergens
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle 4
Coccinella septempunctata
Polished Lady Beetle 4
Cycloneda munda
Spotless Lady Beetle 5
Cycloneda sanguinea
Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle 4
Psyllobora vigintimaculata
Mealybug Destroyer 6
Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle 7
Chilocorus stigma
Pyractomena borealis 8
Black Firefly 4
Lucidota atra
Common Eastern Firefly 4
Photinus pyralis
Devil's Coach Horse Beetle 9
Ocypus olens
Brown Rove Beetle 10
Platydracus maculosus
Carolina Burying Beetle 11
Nicrophorus carolinus
Pustulated Carrion Beetle 12
Nicrophorus pustulatus
American Carrion Beetle 13
Necrophila americana
Carolina Copris 14
Dichotomius carolinus
Small Black Dung Beetle 15
Copris minutus
Scooped Scarab 16
Onthophagus hecate
Gazelle Scarab 17
Digitonthophagus gazella
Black Phanaeus 18
Phanaeus triangularis
Rainbow Scarab 19
Phanaeus vindex
Humpback Dung Beetle 20
Deltochilum gibbosum

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