APHID MIDGE, Garden Patrol Aphids Specialist

[applestar]

I just came across new-to-me members of the Garden Patrol who are aphid specialists.

They are called aphid midge and their larvae look like golden yellow maggots wallowing in the middle of an aphid infestation.

Aphid midge larvae are an important natural enemy of aphids, attacking more than 60 different species. Larvae paralyze aphid by attacking their leg joints, and then sucks them dry, leaving a blackened, collapsed aphid attached to the leaf.

https://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/IPM/english ... idges.html

[rainbowgardener]

Cool! I didn't know about them either. Here's a nice little article about them, that lists plants to grow to attract them to your garden - for you probably all stuff you grow anyway, but nice to know.

https://site.cleanairgardening.com/info/ ... sects.html

[applestar]

Bumping for Lindsay.

[Lindsaylew82]

VINDICATION!!!!!

[Lindsaylew82]

Look at all these aphid raisins!!!

[applestar]

Aphid RAISINS << I love it!

I found an unhatched aphid mummy (infested by aphid mummy wasp) under an yellowed eggplant leaf I plucked off, so I put it under another eggplant that could use some attention.