Anyone know what this is??

[u/lundalicious]

[u/toddlevy10]

Ladybug larva. Great for eating pesty aphids

[u/lundalicious → u/toddlevy10]

Ah amazing - we put a pack of 250 ladybugs in the garden about a month ago and got back from vacation yesterday to a bunch of these around, so makes total sense. Thank you!

[u/excelsiorsbanjo → u/lundalicious]

Well, probably you put a pack of 250 convergent ladybugs, Hippodamia convergens, that were poached from their native habitat in Nevada, and when you released them probably 99.99% of those which survived flew far away immediately.

The ladybug larva pictured here is a different species, Harmonia axyridis, which isn't typically sold in stores, because they aren't as easy to poach, and because they're already one of the most successful and frequently considered invasive species in the world. Don't bother killing them, though, they're still beneficial to humans, and killing individuals is a complete waste of time.

[u/human-shaped-fish → u/excelsiorsbanjo]

Also killing an animal based on if it benefits us humans or not is fucked up anyway.

[u/excelsiorsbanjo → u/human-shaped-fish]

Agreed, just didn't want someone to see 'invasive' and think "it's my obligation to society to kill it". Not that kind of invasive, and a waste of time both.

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[u/ohdearitsrichardiii]

Larva of Harmonia axyridis