Beetles Beetles To Home Page Ladybird beetles, also known as ladybug beetles are voracious predators of aphids. Collectors sell them in bulk to gardeners for pest control.
Beetles can be both enemy and friend to the agriculture industry.
Some species devastate crops and others attack the attackers which reduces the need for chemical pesticides. This is a close up of the Lady bugs laying her eggs. The group of insects known as beetles are members of the family Scolytidae in the order Coleoptera. Most beetles cause little or no economic damage as they normally infest branches, stumps, and stems of standing dead, severely weakened trees or downed material. A relatively few species will attack and kill living, apparently healthy trees.