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Hover Fly
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- Larva in heavy infestation of cabbage aphids
Lacewing
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- Eggs on apple leaf
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- Larva
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- Detail of wings and antennae
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- Ventral view
Lady Beetle
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- Adult C7 on tomato
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- Adult MCALB near aphids
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- Adult pink on lettuce
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- Larva on aspargus
Orange Predatory Midge (Aphidoletes aphidimyza)
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- In heavy infestations of cabbage aphids
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- In low infestation of cabbage aphids
Parasitoids
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- Celatoria setosa emerging from cucumber beetle
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- Cotesia congregata on tobacco hornworm
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- Emerging from pupa of cabbage looper
Praying Mantis
Spined Soldier Bug (Podisus maculiventris)
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- Adult spined solider bug feeding on bean leaf beetle.
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- Adult spined solider bug feeding on southern corn rootworm beetle.
Spirea Aphid
(A good source of aphids for feeding beneficial insects in May)
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- Apple Pests
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- Feeding
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- Feeding at tip of branch
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- Spirea aphids
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- Mature spirea
