Flower insects
Many flowers and other plants rely on pollinators to reproduce and pollinators rely on flowers for food. While some insects eat and damage flowering plants. Find out about the insect friends and foes of blooming plants.
Visit Flowers for pollinators for information on creating landscapes that provide habitat for bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.
Don't know what insect you have?
What insect is this? will help you identify hundreds of common and uncommon pests found in Minnesota.
- Aphids
- Bees The U of M Bee Lab and Extension Bee Squad
- Earwigs
- Fourlined plant bugs
- Galls
- Iris borers
- Japanese beetles and grubs
- Rose chafers
- Sawflies
- Slugs
- Soldier beetles
- Spider mites
- Spittle bugs
- Striped cucumber beetles and spotted cucumber beetles
- Tobacco budworms
- Wasps and bees
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