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Do you have lots of aphids in your garden?
If you do, look very closely and you may also find
beneficial insects feeding on them.
Lady beetles are voracious aphid feeders.
Most people recognize adult lady beetles,
but lady beetle larvae are unfamiliar to many people.
also stock indeed aidid's these tiny black lady beetles just hatched
out of their eggs will soon be off to hunt aidid's
another common a bit predator is the green lace wing
adults have lacy green wings and golden eyes
they lay eggs on long stalks either singly or in clusters
lay swing larvae are the primary predatory stage
Barbier alligator like insects that grab a fence with their pitcher like
mandibles and secondly if its contents
in addition to aphids lay swing speed on many other small soft-bodied insects
such as scales caterpillars and psyllids surfeit flies
sometimes called flower flies or hover flies speed on pollen and nectar
however surfeit fly larvae feed almost entirely on
aidid's these pale legless caterpillar like maggots are often found wandering
in a bit colonies
seizing evidence carting them up as they go many other predators also feed on
aphids
soldier beetles are very common a vid predators on flowering plants
damsel bugs feed on aphids as well as many other small to medium-sized in sex
predation mages are very small magnets similar to surface that can often be
found feeding on aphids
in addition to these a vid predators or hunters many tiny wasps
kill in parasitized if it's by lane the eggs inside the apex body
eggs hatch into wasp larvae that feed within the aphid and rapidly kill it
the dead if it develops a beige or black crust called the money
in the wasp keep it within cutting a circular hole when it is ready to emerge
as an untold wasp
parasitic wasps can a vid predators frequently keep a pit populations at low
levels
protect these natural enemies by avoiding sprays and insecticides that
will kill them
see the UC IPM website for more information on a fence
and natural enemies