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What is this insect?

I'm sorry the picture is so blurry but I was having a very hard time getting a cheap camrea to focus so close. Is this a pest bug and should I try and get rid of them? If so how should I?
I have already gotten rid of aphids with back walnut husk water. It worked wonders! I really do not want to use anything that will affect any pollinators that come around.
 
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It is a little blurry, but if it is not moving I'm pretty sure it's a ladybug pupa. If you had aphids on that plant, that's even more compelling evidence, since ladybugs are beneficial insects that eat nothing but aphids.
 
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Yep, that's a ladybug, and they are your friends. I can't believe you've never seen them before. :scratch:

You can also "trap crop" aphids. I keep a patch of arugula and let it reseed every year. Aphids seem to prefer it to everything else I grow, so that's the only place I see them.
 
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It's not the larvae. Ladybug larvae are longer, darker with only a bit of color and appear more like an alligator than a VW bug. There's no mistaking them.

In my old home state of NY, the nine-spotted ladybug is the state insect. It is nearly extinct now, being crowded out by the introduced, non-native Asian ladybug.

Wayne
 
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