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Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera)

#Orchid #Aphids #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Orchids #Flower #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

A photo of bee orchid with aphids on it.

Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile) and Aphids

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A photo of an ant crawling over black aphids on the stem of an orchid.

Ravenous 🐞

📷 Olympus OM-1
🔭 Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro
🎨 Edited with #darktable
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#pixelfed #macrophotography #fediverse #photography #omsystem #olympus #macro #photo #macroverse #art #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ladybug #ladybird #ladybeetle #aphids #predation #insectphotography

Why are our gardens being invaded by aphids?

These sap-sucking insects are not as bad as they seem, experts insist. #gardens #invaded #aphids

https://12sknnews.com/why-are-our-gardens-being-invaded-by-aphids/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

New on Entomology Today: A team of researchers in China finds that the sweet-taste inhibitor lactisole reduces sugar feeding in aphids. However, in some cases, lactisole also reduces plant growth, meaning further research is needed to turn it into an effective tool for aphid pest management. #entomology #insects #aphids https://entomologytoday.org/2025/06/04/sweet-taste-inhibitor-lactisole-curbs-aphid-feeding-plant-growth/

It's been more than 24 hours without posting bugs? Oh no.

Have an aphid (and a bumblebee), a butterfly (Pararge aegeria?), a jumping spider (Salticus scenicus?), and ... some bramble shoots. A plant? The horror!

#insects #bumblebees #aphids #spiders #macrophotography #Derbyshire

A flat massing of tiny white flowers, facing upwards - with a large, fluffy bumble-bee on the top and a small green winged aphid on one of the branching stems underneath.

Brown butterfly, wings folded to reveal an mottled, almost stripy underside to the wing with an array of eye-like roundels at the rear edge - on a shiny, smooth, yellow-green leaf.

Black and white jumping spider, large black eyes facing past the camera, on a rugged cliff of crystalline boulders - actually millstone grit in an old stone wall.

Extreme close-up of unfurling, new shoots on a bramble plant - gren stems covered in fine, soft spines, and curled-up leaves at the tips still soft and pink, with what look like tiny spherical droplets on the points of the spines.

Today is day 3 of #30DaysWild 😻 During our evening #hedgewatch in our garden we discovered many #ladybird #larvae 😻
They are very welcome in our place because they love to eat #aphids

#InsectThursday #insects #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography

Another little Aphid hanging out

@macrophotography

#macro #photography #NeatoBuilds #nature #aphids #insects #SonyA7RIII #Laowa #year2025 #California #Milpitas

A yellow aphid sitting on a fuzzy plant with more aphids in the background out of focus

Another welcome visitor on my aphid-infested fava beans, a syrphid fly larva (or pre-pupa). Might take it home and rear it to adulthood so I can get an ID. I love having my desk covered in vials of mystery critters. #SyrphidFlies #HoverFlies #FlowerFlies #aphids #syrphidae #diptera

Long, mottled-green, slug-like larva with two small knobs protruding from one end.

Aphid wasp (Pemphredon sp.) on a fava bean leaf. These are cavity nesters and will cram dozens of paralyzed aphids into a hollow stem for a single larva to consume. Apparently very fond of roses so save the bigger branches for your insect hotel when you prune them. #wasps #aphids #insects #hymenoptera #crabronidae #roses

Small, shiny black wasp with a squarish head and diffusely covered with very short white hairs. It's resting on a leaf.

🧵 If you listened to my micro-macro-amplifyer you could hear a "roaaarrr!" against #aphids on my rose. In German, #ladybird larvae are called Blattlauslöwen, #aphid lions.

Because of the warm winter and the terrible dryness, we have myriads of aphids. And because of farmers using more pesticides, we have less #insects and insect eating #birds. So more aphids*. Everything is #interconnected. Read ALT!

#NatureMatchCuts #ladybeetle #Coccinellidae #HarmoniaAxyridis #ecosystems #naturephotography

Larva of Harmonia axyridis, the Asian ladybeetle. It is larger than larvae of native ladybeetles, nearly black, and distinguishable by the orange backsides and 4 orange points on the back. Harmonia axyridis is an invasive species in France since 2001, spread by pest control breeders in Belgium. The companies had to close, the species was initially combated. It initially pushed back the native species, but I can now see that it is returning, at least in my region. The Asian ladybird is also more resilient to climate change.

Aphids
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#macro #macrophotography

Saw some yellow aphids on my lunch walk

@macrophotography

#macro #photography #MacroPhotography #insect #SonyA7rIII #laowa #year2025 #NeatoBuilds #nature #aphids #yellow #california #milpitas

Yellow aphids on a flower with baby aphids around them

Young ladybug (probably Adalia sp.) with its prey.
#ladybug #coccinellidae #coleoptera #larva #aphids #insects #entomology #wildlife #nature #naturephotography

A common red ant (Myrmica rubra) farming aphids this afternoon on cow parsley.

Fine in the wild but please not on my apple tree!

#ants #aphids

A red ant facing downwards on a ribbed stem about four times as wide as itself. It is surrounded by a herd of black aphids

Convergent lady beetle (Hippodamia convergens) on one of my pea trellises. Adults can consume up to 100 aphids per day according to some sources. Also: adorable and bring good luck! #marienkäfer #glückskäfer #beetles #insects #macro #peas #garden #ipm #aphids #pisum #coccinellidae

Round beetle that has a black and white head and orange elytra with black spots. Crawling on a rusting metal wire that is wrapped with pale green pea tendrils.

And an ant drink aphid pee – a high-sugar drink –, from its aphid farm. See photo 2 (the droplet) and 3 (the ant drinking it).

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/282129084

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #ants #aphids #entomology

@acm_redfox "Researchers observed that larval lacewings that do feed on [oleander aphids] may not mature normally, that ladybug larvae may have deformed wings as adults, and that afflicted spiders spin aberrant webs." https://uwm.edu/field-station/bug-of-the-week/oleander-aphid/

It seems that some ladybugs can be harmed by oleander aphids, although perhaps others can tolerate their poisons.

Which bugs, ladybugs or otherwise, can eat these aphids without taking damage? It's not clear to me.

#ladybugs #lacewings #spiders #aphids

Oleander aphids (Aphis nerii) are on my milkweed again. They are unsightly, and may stress the plants and spread plant disease. Insecticides or even jets of water risk harming monarch caterpillars.

So I want biological control. What natural predators can kill oleander aphids without being hurt by their toxins? Are any of them native?

This paper suggests planting "service plants" to attract predators, but I don't know which predators I want to attract: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/8/11/1038

#aphids #milkweed

#Aphids

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