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It's Friday Fly Day!
It's Friday Fly Day--and time to post images of a syrphid fly. Syrphid flies, often mistaken for...
A syrphid fly, a female Scaeva pyrastri, hovers over an Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The syrphid fly licks honey dew from the head of the lady beetle, which had just feasted on the honeydew-producing aphids on a rose bush. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Incredible Aphid-Eating Machines
Just call them the "incredible aphid-eating machines." That would be the lady beetles, commonly...
Lady beetle larva dining on aphids on milkweed, UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, tracks down more prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet Our Garden Heroes at Bohart Museum Open House on March 2
If there's anything better than a ladybug eating an aphid, it's a ladybug devouring dozens of...
A ladybug grabbing an aphid. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ladybug prowling for aphids on brittlebush, Encelia californica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ladybug "walking the line." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Targeting the Asian Soybean Aphid
The Asian soybean aphid is not exactly a household word. As its name implies, it's native to Asia....
Asian soybean aphid. (Courtesy Wikipedia, Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin)
An Aphid-Kind of Day
It was an aphid-kind of day. When a ladybug landed on a gaura in our bee friendly garden, it was...
Tower of Aphids
Eye to Eye
Crunch Time
