Predatory Mites
Typhlodromus pyri (Scheuten), Amblyseius fallacis (German), Typhlodromus occidentalis (Nesbitt) (Acari:Phytoseiidae), and Zetzellia mall (Ewing) (Acari:Stigmaeidae) ...
Predatory Mites
These mites feed on Thrips and Pest mites.
Praying Mantis
These big guys also eat a lot of beneficial insects, so they are not recommended for your garden.
Nowadays we're taking a biological approach, using these little critters called predatory mites.
Natural controls include ladybugs, pirate bugs and other predatory mites. Adequate watering of plants during dry spells is helpful, and hosing plants off with a forceful jet of water can physically remove and kill mites.
Horticultural oils are nonselective, meaning they kill both pests and susceptible beneficial insects (predatory mites, for example).
These predatory mites prefer to work their way up a plant, searching for food, so try to introduce them as low down as possible.
However, small, soft-bodied beneficial insects such as predatory mites can't move out of the way fast enough and are killed. If you rely on beneficial mites to deter other pests, think twice before using oil (or any other pesticide).
It works by contact and by injestion and will not harm most beneficial insects or predatory mites. Neem (botanical) will also work.
A systemic such as Orthene will give you long term control.
Lady beetles are renowned aphid eaters.
Green Lacewings eat aphids, mites, thrips and many insect eggs.
Predatory Mites feed on thrips and spider mites
Parasitic Wasps attack caterpillars ...
Do not use toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Instead, use all-natural compost and biological pesticides such as predatory mites that will ward off pests.
Growing Food ...
environment for beneficial insects, particularly predatory and parasitic species like ladybird beetles, lacewings, hover flies, mantises, robber flies and some types of flies and wasps, as well as noninsects like spiders and predatory mites.
 See also: Mites, Predator, Plant, Gardener, Spider
  
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