### animal | arthropod | insect:

Beneficial insect
* Many beneficial insects feed on or parasitize the various life stages of asparagus beetles
  - the pollen of plants such as cilantro, fennel, and buckwheat
  - upon harmful ones
* Most beneficial insects feed on matter.
* Some beneficial insects eat crop pests.
* Some beneficial insects eat damage crop pests
  - other insects
* Some beneficial insects feed on pests
  - plant pests
  - play roles
* Some beneficial insects prey on harmful insects
* are either predators or parasites
  - extremely important in keeping aphid populations in check
  - natural enemies of pests
  - very active and helping to crash the populations
* can attack adults, eggs and larvae on plants or on the soil surface
  - be effective at controlling scale, so look for natural predators
  - pest insects and help gardeners with pest insect control
* habitat Beneficial insects flock to a garden with a broad diversity of plants.
* help pollinate flowers.
* include mantises
  - prey mantises
* move from flowering plants to nearby crops
  - the alfalfa to vegetable fields at the first cutting
* need sources.
* play an important role in aphid control.
* use different hunting strategies.
* vary in importance in different areas.

### animal | arthropod | insect:

Blowfly
* Blowflies are attracted to food sources where they can lay their eggs
  - economic pests of the wool industry and potential vectors for epidemics
  - often carriers of disease, such as dysentery
  - surface parasites that feed on blood
  - the flies commonly seen flying around dung or roadkill
  - can be deadly parasites of young bluebirds
* Blowflies feed on diets
  - fat diets
  - low fat diets
  - have short lives but reproduce very quickly
* Blowflies includes air sacs
  - brains
  - carapaces
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - flight feathers
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - sections
  - shells
  - skulls
  - thoraxes
  - vacuoles
  - make buzz noise
* Blowflies make loud buzz noise
  - often feed on the wounds in sheep, cattle, and other livestock
* Most blowflies feed on diets
* Most blowflies make loud buzz noise
* Some blowflies use dead animal meat

Bristletail
* All bristletails are carrot-shaped, somewhat flattened, and covered with grayish scales.
* have a cylindrical body that tapers to a narrow bristle-like tail
  - chewing mouthparts
* is an insect
* molt after becoming adults, but most adult insects neither molt nor increase in size.
* prefer to eat vegetable matter.

### animal | arthropod | insect | bristletail:

Firebrat
* are a darker mottled orangish gray with bands of dark scales
  - bristletails
  - more common in attics and around furnaces, ovens, and water heaters
  - mottled gray or brown
  - similar to silverfish in overall appearance but lack the silvery sheen
* eat almost anything and can go for months without eating at all.
* mostly look like silverfish, but lack the silvery sheen.
* prefer hot places such as near ovens, fireplaces, furnaces and hot water pipes.
* require some moisture.
* thrive best in very warm, moist places.

Brown lacewing
* are somewhat smaller than green lacewings.
* have brown eyes and wings.
* is an insect