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