Natural enemies

There are two types of natural enemies in the rice fields:

Predators

• Captures, kill and eats the prey
• eat many prey in a lifetime, feeding both as young and as adults
• Usually larger than their prey
• Do not have specific prey mostly
• Some bugs, beetles, flies, lacewings and spiders

Parasitoids

• Lay their eggs to other insects (the hosts).
• Each egg hatches within the host, and the young feed and develop within that single host, eventually killing it.
• Parasitoids are most commonly small wasps.