Below are a few examples of pests that I allow to occupy my organic garden, with an explanation of why exactly. Why I Want Some Aphids . PaulMaguire / Getty Images. Aphids are a common pest.

Examples of pests with piercing/sucking/rasping mouthparts include stink bugs, leaf-footed bugs, four-lined plant bugs, aphids, scale, mealybugs, whiteflies and thrips.

For example, the survival rate of scale insects and the production of eggs by female scales may increase downtown … due to the city’s heat island effect. This enables populations of some pests ...

Lights, Camera, Action: How Researchers Attract Insects. As you’ll learn in “Bugs That Rule the World,” there are over 2,400 species of praying mantises, and more than a tenth live in Brazil.

Examples of pests that these beneficial insects help keep in check include aphids, tomato hornworms, cabbage worms and cucumber beetles, to name a few.