The Anthocoridae are a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs.

Nidicola jaegeri (minute pirate bugs or flower bugs)

Other natural predators useful in protecting hot-house raspberries from mite damage include lacewing larvae, lady beetle larvae, minute pirate bugs and predatory thrips.

Examples of predatory beneficial insects include minute pirate bugs, big-eyed bugs, and to a lesser extent ladybugs (which tend to fly away), all of which eat a wide range of pests.

More than 40% of the eggs probably survive the winter but some are eaten by birds or flower bugs and others fail to hatch in the spring.

The Anthocoridae are a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs.

Nidicola jaegeri (minute pirate bugs or flower bugs)

Bedbugs and flower bugs (Cimicidae)

Heteroptera itself is a group of 25,000 species of relatively large bugs, including the shield bugs, seed bugs, assassin bugs, flower bugs, sweetpotato bugs and the water bugs (see below).

Until recently, many authors considered these bugs to belong within the family Anthocoridae.

Hemiptera are mostly herbivores or omnivores but pollen feeding is known (and has only been well studied in the Anthocoridae).

The Anthocoridae are a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs.

Other insect orders are rarely pollinators, and then typically only incidentally (e.g., Hemiptera such as Anthocoridae, Miridae).

It has been known to be predated upon by birds, ants, spiders, and mites and by Anthocoridae, Reduviidae, and Carabidae from the insect class.

Heteroptera itself is a group of 25,000 species of relatively large bugs, including the shield bugs, seed bugs, assassin bugs, Anthocoridae and the water bugs (see below).

These include members of the families Phytoseiidae, Coccinellidae, Syrphidae, Anthocoridae, Nabidae, and Miridae, Chrysopidae and Coniopterygidae.