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In horticulture and gardening, beneficial insects are often considered those that contribute to pest control and native habitat integration. Encouraging beneficial insects, by providing suitable living conditions, is a pest control strategy, often used in organic farming, organic gardening or integrated pest management.
Pages in category "Insects of North America" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 269 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lists of insects of the United States (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Insects of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 420 total.
Iowa and Michigan are the two states without a designated state insect. More than half of the insects chosen are not native to North America, because of the inclusion of three European species (European honey bee, European mantis, and 7-spotted ladybird), each having been chosen by multiple states.
Pages in category "Lists of insects of the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Insects of North America (14 C, 271 P) Insects of Oceania (16 C, 11 P)
They use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environment. Of the roughly 80 currently known species, 13 are native to Europe, 9 to North America, and some to northern Asia. The largest number of species is in South and Central America.