predators
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 015WildlifeAnts and Wasps: Farmers, Predators, and the Insects Nobody Defends
Ants farm aphids and undo your biological control; social wasps kill thousands of pests before becoming a nuisance in August.
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№ 039WildlifeBeneficial Predators: The Unpaid Workforce
Lacewings, ground beetles, parasitoid wasps, spiders and earwigs — what each one hunts, and the habitat that keeps them resident.
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№ 200WildlifeGround Beetles: The Night Shift That Eats Slugs and Weed Seeds
Fast, glossy, ground-dwelling predators that hunt slugs, cutworms, and pest eggs by night and eat weed seeds by day — a resident workforce that thrives on undisturbed ground and dies out under the plough.
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№ 256WildlifeLacewings: The Delicate Fliers With Ravenous Larvae
Fragile, gauzy-winged insects whose larvae — the 'aphid lions' — are among the most voracious pest predators in any garden, each devouring hundreds of aphids before it pupates.
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№ 342WildlifeParasitoid Wasps: The Insect World's Living Weapons
Tiny, stingless wasps that lay their eggs inside other insects, their larvae devouring the host alive from within — one of the most powerful natural forces holding pests in check, and the basis of much biological control.
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№ 370EcologyPredator-Prey Balance: Build Habitat, Skip the Sprays
How to attract ladybirds, lacewings, ground beetles, owls, and snakes so they do the pest control work that pesticides do badly.
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№ 453WildlifeSpiders: The Garden's Biggest Predator Guild
Not insects but eight-legged hunters — among the most abundant and voracious predators in any garden, eating a staggering weight of pests each year, if you give them the undisturbed cover they need.
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№ 499EcologyTrophic Cascades: When the Top Predator Shapes the River
How removing — or restoring — a top predator can ripple all the way down a food web to change the plants, the soil, and even the shape of a river, as the wolves of Yellowstone and the sea otters of the kelp forest famously showed.
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