Could these be ladybugs? These are the eggs on a leaf of the fig tree.I feel responsible for them! I don't see any aphids. What will they eat? How will they survive? Should I make tiny ladybug bottles and go out there every fifteen minutes to give them a drink?
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Wow! They are beautiful - whatever they are.. They look like ladybugs to me too.
ReplyDeletePlease keep us updated with their development. It will be like a biology lesson - I've never seen ladybugs grow up. Do they have terrible two's and grumpy teenage-stages too?
Hmm, those are the strangest looking lady bugs I've ever seen. Hope they are lady bugs and nothing harmful to your fig tree.
ReplyDeleteThe larva of a ladybug/bird is a funny-looking thing, flat, just short of a cm long, stripes, runs about quickly on its six legs. If someone (Lyn) had not told me I would never have known. It bears little resemblance to a ladybug/bird
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Hen - I know them as the slender worm-like creatures, but are these what they look like right out of the egg, do you think?
ReplyDeleteCheck your e-mail - I have sent you some pics and info on bugs and ladybirds - can't work out how to put this sort of info on your blog. Hope you find it interesting
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Ummm, I'm about 85% sure that you have a very healthy brood of harliquine bugs ... I would suggest perhaps uprooting the happy family to the nearest park so they may feast on things other than your beloved patio friends...
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They look like they could be ladybug larva, though I recognize them best when they are a little bigger. Maybe wait and see what they do. Even though there are no aphids on the fig tree, the mother ladybug must have had a reason to lay eggs there. Or maybe it wasn't a ladybug after all.
ReplyDeleteThose are not ladybugs or larvae. They are brown marmorated stink bugs that have just hatched.
ReplyDeleteThank you! We figured that out subsequently.
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DeleteAh ha so glad I searched, I just found a bunch hatching in my kitchen and we too though baby ladybugs at first! Felt so guilty that I squished a couple at first, poor babies! Guilt is gone now!
ReplyDeleteI found a host of bugs that look like these eating one of my monarch caterpillars on tropical milkweed.
ReplyDeleteWow glad I looked on here! I found a little circle of these on our honeysuckle bushes while pruning today, here in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. I thought too that they were ladybugs and put them in a jar with holes in the top hoping to release them into the garden... NOT!! Thank you to all those who commented.
ReplyDeleteSo glad I looked too because I thought they were ladybugs and was going to leave them there but after a quick search found my answer.
ReplyDeleteI found some today on a swan plant km now researching them as i was about to go put them back out there . Want now lol, Nelson Newzealand
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