31.   Then he plants a cover crop to provide a habitat for beneficial insects.

32.   There are two kinds of beneficial insects -- predators and parasitoids.

33.   They are not the best of the beneficial insects, since they will just as happily eat a lady beetle as a Japanese beetle.

34.   They blame a state spraying program to eradicate boll weevils for killing off beneficial insects that normally eat armyworms.

35.   To further complicate the matter, the line between pest and beneficial insect is sometimes drawn finely.

36.   To avoid killing beneficial insects such as predatory wasps and ladybugs, which are natural enemies of aphids, nontoxic or low-toxic treatments are best.

37.   Wasps and hornets are beneficial insects, feasting on many other insects and also pollinating plants.

38.   Farmers say that the pesticides they use when they plant conventional crops are a greater risk to beneficial insects than the biotech varieties.

39.   In conventional farming, chemicals designed to kill pests also can kill beneficial insects.

40.   Instead of relying exclusively on insecticides, they rely on beneficial insects and microorganisms in the soil to give total or partial pest control.