Sara Posted June 21, 2012 Report Posted June 21, 2012 planted milkweed this year to increase the butterfly population here and got quite a show from the lady beetles.. enjoy pupating out some cool pics of them eating on aphids "about the extent of macro my crappy little camera can take Quote
Ometeo Posted June 24, 2012 Report Posted June 24, 2012 nice! We have about six different species that show up on our mandarin tree every year, dang aphids, but hey, we get to see various lady beetles too :-) Great pics Sara. Quote
jreidsma Posted June 29, 2012 Report Posted June 29, 2012 Nice pictures! My camera won't even focus on things that small I released a bunch of lady beetles this years in hopes they would stick around and keep the aphids down. I haven't seen any sense.... Quote
Peter Clausen Posted July 15, 2012 Report Posted July 15, 2012 I set up my blacklight and sheet in the backyard last night, with a friend. We pulled in at least four species of lady(bug) beetles, including the painted Lady beetle: http://bugguide.net/node/view/308166 Vibrant yellow aphids! I've only ever seen those in Mexico and the lady beetles were all over them there too. Nice life cycle shots too. I'm continually surprised when people don't associate the larvae with the adult beetles, thinking that small lady beetles are young and large ones are older, or that the number of spots represents their age, etc. Quote
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