{"id":17636,"date":"2019-09-09T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17636"},"modified":"2019-09-11T22:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:42:54","slug":"aphids-and-lady-beetle-larva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17636","title":{"rendered":"Aphids and Lady Beetle Larva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17638\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17638\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Oleander Aphids (Aphis nerii) and Lady Beetle Larva\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17638\" data-wp-pid=\"17638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190909_169585.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oleander Aphids (<em>Aphis nerii <\/em>) and Lady Beetle Larva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I mentioned the aphids on the <em>Asclepias curassavica<\/em> (scarlet milkweed) when I posted the photo of the large milkweed bug a few days ago. Here&#8217;s a picture of the aphids. It was fairly dark when I took this (7:45 in the evening) and I used a flash to light them, which allowed me to get reasonable depth of field. I used a flashlight give me enough light to focus, with the camera on a tripod (which I definitely should use more often). As I was taking the pictures, I realized the aphids were not alone. There is a larva of a lady beetle of some sort (probably an Asian lady beetle, <em>Harmonia axyridis<\/em>), feeding on the aphids. Unfortunately, there are too many aphids for this lone predator, and I&#8217;m going to need to take care of them myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the aphids on the Asclepias curassavica (scarlet milkweed) when I posted the photo of the large milkweed bug a few days ago. Here&#8217;s a picture of the aphids. It was fairly dark when I took this (7:45 in the evening) and I used a flash to light them, which allowed me to get &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1956,1958,1957,1960,310,73,1677,133,132,1959,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17641,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}