Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: ptarmigan on June 17, 2017, 09:21
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It's eating my greenfly...
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Whatever you do, don't disturb it, :lol:. No idea, sorry.
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I'm very happy about it! Just curious as to what it's going to start on next. There's loads of them...
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That looks like an Ichneumon stramentor.
A sort of parasitic wasp that does feed on aphids.
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Does it fly ? Could be an unusual species of hoverfly. Right colours and markings. They like an aphid or ten.
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That looks like an Ichneumon stramentor.
A sort of parasitic wasp that does feed on aphids.
I thought adult ichneumon flies fed on nectar. They parastise caterpillars, usually largish ones, for their larvae to develop inside though. Ichneumon stramentor parasitizes Yellow Underwing moth caterpillars
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I have had a search around as I couldn't remember the name of it half way through my last post... senior moment!!
It is called Grypocoris stysi and it feeds on both flower heads and ... aphids!!!! Adults are around in June & July.I think it is sometimes called a Mirid Bug as it belongs to the family Miridae
Hope that helps a bit..... a friend, not a foe for sure 😀😀😀
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Very interesting, have seen these by my back door, of all places, in the last week. Wondered what they were.
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Ooh , that's it. Fantastic to have a friendly bug. There's loads of them.
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Ooh , that's it. Fantastic to have a friendly bug. There's loads of them.
Excellent... they must be gobbling up aphids at a rate of knots 😆😆