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annew

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Insect for ID please?
« on: July 01, 2016, 01:26:25 PM »
My neighbour's clematis was defoliated last week. He says he found hundreds of tiny orange things the size of a pin head, and also lots of these. These look like predators to me, in fact one is eating one of the others! Any ideas?
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2016, 01:27:39 PM »
They look a bit like ladybird larvae, but not the species I'm used to.
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2016, 02:01:26 PM »
Harlequin ladybird larva I think.
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2016, 06:50:19 PM »
Yep, Harlequin Ladybird larvae. A non-native introduced to Europe and the US for aphid control that has now got out of control itself.
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2016, 09:21:52 PM »
Voracious little blighters!
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2016, 10:37:26 PM »
So what does it eat now then? (apart from each other :o)
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2016, 05:03:55 AM »
Aphids,
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2016, 08:44:01 AM »
There's only one left in the pot now. ::)
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2016, 03:12:19 PM »
Do they eat woolly aphid, if so send one along :D
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Re: Insect for ID please?
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2016, 04:50:57 PM »
Quote from: shelagh on July 03, 2016, 03:12:19 PM
Do they eat woolly aphid, if so send one along :D

Have you got them too Shelagh? My Primulas are full of them (never had them before) and re-potting is taking an age.
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