A wide variety of beneficial organisms are offered for sale to assist in management of insects and mites. The following is a partial listing updated April 13, 2007.
| Common Name
| Scientific Name
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| Convergent lady beetle | Hippodamia convergens
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| Multicolored Asian lady beetle | Harmonia axyridis
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| Sevenspotted lady beetle | Coccinella septempunctata
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| Twospotted lady beetle | Adalia bipunctata
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| Mealybug destroyer | Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
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| Dephastus whitefly predators | Dephastus pusillus, Dephastus catalinae, Delphastus spp.
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| Spider mite destroyers | Stethorus punctillum, Stethorus spp.
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| Scale predatory beetles | Rhyzobius lopanthae, Cybocephalus nipponicus (Scale picnic beetle)
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| Fungus gnat predators | Atheta coriaria
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| Green lacewings | Chrysoperla rufilabris, Chrysoperla carnea, Chrysoperla comanche, Chrysoperla spp.
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| Chinese mantid | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
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| Aphid predator midges | Aphidoletes aphidimyza
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| Spider mite predator midges | Feltiella acarisuga
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| Sixspotted thrips | Scolothrips sexmaculatus
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| Spider mite predatory mites | Neoseiulus californicus, Neoseiulus (=Amblyseius) fallacis, Amblyseius (Typhlodromips) swirskii, Galendromus (=Mesoseiulus) occidentalis, Mesoseiulus (=Phytoseiulus) longipes, Phytoseiulus persimilis, Galendromus annectens, Galendromus helveoulus, Predatory mite mixtures
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| Thrips predatory mites | Neoseiulus (=Amblyseius) cucumeris, Amblyseius degenerans
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| Pirate bugs | Orius insidiosus, Orius laevigatus, Orius majusculus, Orius spp.
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| Big-eyed bugs | Geocoris punctipes
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| Predatory plant bugs | Deraeocoris brevis
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| Whitefly predator bugs | Macrolophus caliginosus
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| Spined soldier bug | Podisus maculiventris
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| Predatory soil-dwelling mites | Hypoaspis miles, Hypoaspis spp.
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| Common Name
| Scientific Name
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| Trichogramma wasps | Trichogramma minutum, Trichogramma brassicae, Trichogramma platneri, Trichogramma pretiosum, Trichogrammatoidea bactra, Trichogramma spp.
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| Fly parasitoids | Muscidifurax raptor, Muscidifurax raptorellus, Muscidifurax zaraptor, Muscidifurax spp., Spalangia endius, and Nasonia vitripennis
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| Aphid parasitoids | Aphelinus abdominalis, Aphidius colemani, Aphidius matricariae, Aphidius ervi, Aphidius spp.
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| Greenhouse whitefly parasitoids | Encarsia formosa
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| Sweetpotato whitefly parasitoids | Eretmocerus eremicus, Eretmocerus mundus
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| Mexican bean beetle parasitoids | Pediobius foveolatus
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| Mealybug parasitoids | Leptomastix dactylopii, Leptomastidea abnormis, Anagyrus pseudococci
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| Armored scale parasitoid/Golden Chalcid | Aphytis melinus
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| Soft scale parasitoids | Metaphycus helvolus, Metaphycus flavus
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| Caterpillar parasitoids | Cotesia marginiventris, Cotesia plutellae
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| Leafminer parasitoids | Diglyphus isaea, Dacnusa sibrica
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| Lygus bug egg parasitoids | Anaphes iole
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