Examples of pest and beneficial (including parasitised) eggs.
Please note: these photos are not to scale.
Pests: Single or small groups
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- Etiella
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- Soybean moth
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- Soybean looper
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- Helicoverpa (darken as they mature)
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- Bean podborer
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- Small brown bean bug
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- Large brown bean bug
Pests: Rafts
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- Freshly laid raft of Green vegetable bug (GVB)
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- Ready to hatch GVB eggs
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- Spodoptera (cluster caterpillar)
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- Brown shield bug
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- Green stink bug
Beneficials: Rafts
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- Ladybird beetle
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- Assassin bug
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- Green lacewing
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- Spined predatory bug
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- Glossy shield bug
Beneficials: Parasitism
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- Healthy (top) and parasitised helicoverpa
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- Trissolcus basalis emerging from parasitised GVB eggs
