Ah cain’t eat all this!

Crumby promised to keep up with the progress of the red aphids on the verb virgin. Well. They have made plenty of progress. Enough progress to finally get the attention of the dang lady bugs. But there are about a tousand or maybe two tousand aphids for every lady bug larva. This is probably a larva of Cycloneda munda.



Also, here’s an introduced Harmonia axyrides devouring what is probably a leaf beetle larva. Trust me. It ate the whole thing.






These larva, whatever they are, are eating up my tickletongue, for goodness sakes. Don’t know the lady bug sp. shown here, fer sure.






Finally, since we’re into lady bugs, here’s one that may not turn up often in these parts. Coccinella septempunctata