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Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
White, fuzzy looking insects. Ants were all over them.
Ants are infesting these young lemons along with these white insects, aphids and scales.
The adult beetle spotting is at: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/735...
Thank you misako.hill! Sorry my notification was turned off for a while :)
I admittedly cut the lemons off the tree and put them in the organic waste bin. After seeing the corrected ID, I quickly retrieved it and put them on back on a tree :)
Wow, now it seems that I WANT this on my plant :) Interesting that they were introduced from Australia. I'll update the ID now. Thank you ceherzog!
This Mealybug Destroyer is a beneficial insect, the larvae of a Mealybug Ladybird. Hope you didn't kill it...on your video it appeared to be eating aphids...it also eats mealybugs and scale insects.
Thank you all for your help! It looks to be the Wooly Aphid and the ants love the honeydew :)
I think auntnance meant to suggest woolly aphids. If it's an aphid or scale insect, it could be that the ants are 'farming' them for honeydew. Look up 'ants and aphids' for more information about how that works.
try to search about the ants. when it comes from infesting through ants, you schould be able to find something on the i-net
Spotted on Sep 3, 2011
Submitted on Sep 3, 2011
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