How to Use These Cards

These cards are designed to help home
gardeners learn to identify the good guys--natural enemies of many common garden pests. The photos and information on each card provide sight identification of the organism or group of organisms considered beneficial in controlling insect garden pests. These cards are not designed for species identification, but only to point out general categories of insects, diseases, and other animals that should be nurtured in the home garden. Note that a natural enemy is categorized as either a parasite, predator, or disease.

Photos by Michael R. Jeffords, David Voegtlin, Susan L. Post, James Sternburg, Clifford Sadof (Purdue), and Joseph Maddox. Layout design by Carolyn Nixon.

This project is a collaboration between the Illinois Natural History Survey and Purdue University.

Printing of this card set was made possible by a grant from Cooperative Extension Service-Integrated Pest Management Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.