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    This document lists 25 insects and their scientific names, habitats, and agricultural importance. It describes where various insects like cockroaches, house crickets, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, bees, beetles and ants are commonly found, such as in homes, fields, forests, ponds and soil. Many of these insects play important roles in agriculture by pollinating plants, preying on pest insects, fertilizing soils, and helping to decay organic matter. However, some insects like cockroaches and grasshoppers can be agricultural pests as they eat stored food and damage crops.

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    This document lists 25 insects and their scientific names, habitats, and agricultural importance. It describes where various insects like cockroaches, house crickets, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, bees, beetles and ants are commonly found, such as in homes, fields, forests, ponds and soil. Many of these insects play important roles in agriculture by pollinating plants, preying on pest insects, fertilizing soils, and helping to decay organic matter. However, some insects like cockroaches and grasshoppers can be agricultural pests as they eat stored food and damage crops.

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    Adesina Adijat
    This document lists 25 insects and their scientific names, habitats, and agricultural importance. It describes where various insects like cockroaches, house crickets, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, bees, beetles and ants are commonly found, such as in homes, fields, forests, ponds and soil. Many of these insects play important roles in agriculture by pollinating plants, preying on pest insects, fertilizing soils, and helping to decay organic matter. However, some insects like cockroaches and grasshoppers can be agricultural pests as they eat stored food and damage crops.

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    S/N NAME OF THE INSECTS SCIENTIFIC NAMES HABITATS AGRICULTURAL IMPORTANCES

    1. Cockroach(brown banded) Supella longipalpa Homes, apartment, hotels, and It helps to decay organic matter.
    hospitals.
    2. House cricket Acheta domesticus Woodlands, caves pasture. Novel food.
    3. Beetle Adelium brevicorne Amidst stem of plants Feed on young canola plant at ground level
    4. Butterfly Monrach Danaus plexippus Open fields and meadows with It is vital in pollination of fruits.
    milkweed.
    5. Dragonfly(black saddle Tramega laceata Marshy ponds, lakes etc They help in the garden of living pest
    bags)
    6. Grasshopper(long headed Acrida cinerea Mostly in the summer, also vacant Its wastes product fertilize the soil
    locust) lots and the house
    7. Cockroach(America) Perplaneta americana They generally live in dry moist It eats up stored food stuff.
    areas.
    8. Dragonfly Sympetrum vicinum Marshes, lakes, ponds etc. Predators.
    9. Cockroach(German) Blattella germanica Temperate or tropical environment. Destroy cotton materials
    10. Field cricket Gryllus texensis Great variety of habitats fields It feeds on all types of plant.
    &lawns, forest edges.
    11. Dragonfly(Blue dasher) Pachydiplax longipennis Calm bodies of water, such as Sunlight penetration inherently trade off in
    ponds etc. patchy vegetation.
    12. Grasshopper(Two striped) Melanoplus bivittatus Tall grassland, field etc. It eats up fluid crops
    13. Mud dauber(AGBON) Sceliphron caementarium Build nests that are usually attached Providing natural spider control
    to ceilings or walls of sheds.
    14. Grasshopper desert locust Schistoscerca gregaria Dry grassland Locust swarm
    15. Butterfly(Karnes blue) Lycaecdes melissa They inhabit sandy pine barrens, Development and agricultural land
    samuelis lakeshore dunes, conversions have been a major.
    16. Bee Apis mellifera Tropical climates Contribution to agricultural food crops.
    17. Grasshopper Dichromorpha viridis Field and meadow It eats up plant part.
    18. Grasshopper(America) Schistocceca americana Field and meadow It eats up stored food stuffs.
    19. Housefly Musca domestica Found in all climates. They consume nutrients in rotting organic
    matter.
    20. Beetle(African black) Heteronychus arator Soil and ground It is good control agents of Aphides
    21. Ground Beetle Calleida decora Soil / ground Good control agent of Aphids
    22. Black Ant Lasius niger Gardens and indoors Farm aphids
    23. Flying Ant Lasius niger Gathered in particular site like Liquid disperse.
    colonies.
    24. Broad body Dragonfly Marcomia illonioensis Marshes, pond etc Food resources for fish
    25. Beetle Various spp Cupboards, panties etc Clearance of waste.

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