Ladybugs... are they all good?

[Faith]

This is a bad one I get here... https://www.organicgardener.com.au/blogs/how-control-28-spotted-leaf-eating-ladybird-organically

 

This one here eats powdery mildew and such... If I don't keep up with powdery mildew prevention they always move in.  Usually too few, too late.

http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_ladybirds/FungusEatingLadybird.htm

 

I just squash the many spotted ones but they don't like IPM that much- and its gross yellow man barzids...they love the gooseberries

 

Faith

[loves420]

I'm not sue if this pest that are often thought as a beneficial yellow ladybug are over there, but these are pests trying to fool you by disguising themselves. They're are Cucumber beetles. In the US there are six species of cucumber beetle.There are two types of striped Cucumber beetles: the Acalymma vittatum in the eastern U.S. and A. trivittatum in the west.   The spotted  Cucumber beetles (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi)  are more attracted to cannabis. Another name for the spotted cucumber beetle is “southern corn rootworm”.  The banded cucumber beetle  (Diabrotica balteata) is more common in southern Florida. These beetles are not troublesome in sandy soils. Adult and larval stages of the cucumber beetle transmit several plant diseases, including bacterial wilt and various types of mosaic virus

 

 

Striped cucumber beetle

 

 

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/bean/spotted_cucumber_beetle02.jpg

 

Larval and adult banded cucumber beetle,

Photograph by Lyle Buss,

Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida.

 

 

 

Spotted cucumber beetle (These are the ones in my area)

 

 

 

 

Western corn rootworm

 

 

http://horticulture.oregonstate.edu/system/files/u1808/12_spot_larvae.jpg

 

Spot Beetle larvae

 

 

 

[Faith]

Nope, thank goodness   I see how though they might be misidentified though, spesh the spotty one. 

 

Faith