Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening

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Managing Arthropod Pests


20 | Unit 1.8


B. Arthropod Groups Commonly Found on the Farm and in the Garden



  1. Arachnids


a) Spiders (Araneae)


b) Mites (Acari)


c) Harvestmen or “daddy long legs” (Opiliones)



  1. Garden Symphylan (Symphyla)

  2. Centipedes (Chilopoda)

  3. Millipedes (Diplipoda)

  4. Smaller crustaceans


a) Pillbugs or “Rolly-poly” (Isopoda)



  1. Insects (Hexapoda)—selected orders


a) Spring-tails (Collembola)


b) Dragonflies (Odonata)


c) Preying mantids (Mantodea)


d) Grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera)


e) Planthoppers, leafhoppers, aphids, scale, and mealybugs (Homoptera)


f) True “bugs” (Hemiptera)


g) Beetles (Coleoptera)


h) Flies (Diptera)


i) Bees and wasps (Hymenoptera)


j) Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera)


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