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DonnaB
Vancleave, MS (Zone 8b)
July 24, 2006 1:41 AM Post #2539833
| alien bug appears to be eating other bugs 
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DonnaB
Vancleave, MS (Zone 8b)
July 24, 2006 1:42 AM Post #2539841
| other bugs. They are on a Crepe Myrtle we cut down but if sent up new growth. It has the black mildew on the tops side of the leaves. So is this white fly larva and what the heck is eating in the first pic 
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DonnaB
Vancleave, MS (Zone 8b)
July 24, 2006 1:43 AM Post #2539846
| this is on one leaf of my passiflora sunburst whorley 
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DonnaB
Vancleave, MS (Zone 8b)
July 24, 2006 1:44 AM Post #2539848
| looks like a later stage 
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DonnaB
Vancleave, MS (Zone 8b)
July 24, 2006 1:44 AM Post #2539852
| side view of first pic 
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nifty413
Garland, TX (Zone 8a)
July 24, 2006 1:48 AM Post #2539871
| Picture 1: Ladybug pupa
Picture 2: Aphids (food for ladybug larva!)
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nifty413
Garland, TX (Zone 8a)
July 24, 2006 1:55 AM Post #2539910
| Explanation of your scenario in pic 2: Aphids suck juice out of crape myrtle leaves, but can't digest all the sugars. Sticky substance called "honeydew" drops from aphids' rear ends onto other leaves in which the black sooty mold grows. |
DonnaB
Vancleave, MS (Zone 8b)
July 24, 2006 3:17 AM Post #2540326
| hmmm i thought lady bug larva looked like a wicked black creepy crawly lol. That little brown thing looks pretty bad to. It reared up on it's butt when the flash went off. Its mouth looks like a whiskered vacume cleaner ROFL |
crystalspin
Santa Ana, CA (Zone 9b)
July 24, 2006 3:58 AM Post #2540482
| But it's a GOOD vacuum cleaner. I think the larvae are kinda pretty, but this pupa is pretty homely!
On the passi leaf, looks like a collection of eggs of something, doesn't it? But the pic on the underside of leaf doesn't really. Hope some bug-n-blight expert will shed some light on them.
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