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.
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.
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.
The ladybug larvae are also interesting, They will eat about half the number of aphids as an adult but they look completely different. They remind me of tiny alligators.
I agree I think it's too orange for a regular ladybug. The Asian ones are more orange and the native ones are more reddish. The Asian ones, as mentioned, bite.
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.
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