I keep seeing these on the cucumber plants and pumpkins. They look an AWEFUL lot like cucumber beetles....
But I'm hesitant to treat them as such because I keep seeing these. And cucumber beetle babies do NOT look like these...
. They're not the standard black, blue, and orange of the common lady bug larva either.
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Isn't that it in the bottom right corner?
https://amorphophallus.files.wordpress.c ... mes_sm.jpg
I saw the Parenthesis the other day on the Hazel bush.
https://amorphophallus.files.wordpress.c ... mes_sm.jpg
I saw the Parenthesis the other day on the Hazel bush.
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Every year, the cherry trees get major infestation of oily black aphids. First couple of years, I drove myself crazy, hand picking them, hosing them off, spraying them,... One year I resorted to clipping off every terminally infested leaves. But when I was delayed in taking action at first appearance of the aphids, it became clear that I was "too late" -- every cluster of curled up leaves containing massive number of aphids had a ladybug adult or egg cluster in them.....
Fast forward to this year -- I no longer do anything
...except to collect as much hungry young Garden Patrol members as I need to transport them to their assigned stations.
Fast forward to this year -- I no longer do anything
...except to collect as much hungry young Garden Patrol members as I need to transport them to their assigned stations.
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Saw some of the pink spotted ladies today on both the tomatoes and the peppers. Swear it looked like it was munching on the leaves......
I feel like the lady bugs are doubling in appearance everyday! And their larvae!
Noticed some teeny tiny maggots. I can't get a good shot of them, but I believe they're sucking the aphids. They start yellow, but if they're attached to the aphids they turn the same red. Never noticed them before. There a LOADS of them though. I'm seeing a whole lot of aphid "raisins" as well. I'm leaning towards the maggots, or larvae, or whatever they are.
Can't find anything on google that I think matches very well.
I feel like the lady bugs are doubling in appearance everyday! And their larvae!
Noticed some teeny tiny maggots. I can't get a good shot of them, but I believe they're sucking the aphids. They start yellow, but if they're attached to the aphids they turn the same red. Never noticed them before. There a LOADS of them though. I'm seeing a whole lot of aphid "raisins" as well. I'm leaning towards the maggots, or larvae, or whatever they are.
Can't find anything on google that I think matches very well.
I'll never forget my first year gardening. Something (aphids) was steadily trying to terminate my cucumbers. Then I started seeing these "gross" bugs on them. AHA! Gotcha!
Too bad I didn't look it up first - I killed about half of them before I did look it up and realized that they were ladybug larvae!
Too bad I didn't look it up first - I killed about half of them before I did look it up and realized that they were ladybug larvae!
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