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Ive just been having a check over of all the trees, most have a few aphids, im just ignoring them, the apricots have some new shoots, i squished the aphids on them,
then i noticed the bramley has quite a few bright yellow leaves right next to the golden delcious, looking closer the bramleys yellow leves have red/grey aphids in tightly packed clusters, nothing more than the aphids that i can see
the golden delicious (touching the bramley) has the same red/grey aphids but...., around them on one leaf theres what i presume is hoverfly larvae (about half inch long, kind of grey looking with a few stripes running allong it), its eating the aphids so it seems fine to leave it, then on another few leaves there were about 20 per leaf of tiny red ( very bright almost neon red ) caterpillars, about 2mm long and less than 1mm wide they seem to move quite quick as well , seemed to be surrounding the aphids
does anyone know... what are the red ones? tiny young hoverfly larvae?, or mini ladybird larvae? , or what?
are they good or bad on the plant, ive never seen them before
No photo though as ive broken the camera again
then i noticed the bramley has quite a few bright yellow leaves right next to the golden delcious, looking closer the bramleys yellow leves have red/grey aphids in tightly packed clusters, nothing more than the aphids that i can see
the golden delicious (touching the bramley) has the same red/grey aphids but...., around them on one leaf theres what i presume is hoverfly larvae (about half inch long, kind of grey looking with a few stripes running allong it), its eating the aphids so it seems fine to leave it, then on another few leaves there were about 20 per leaf of tiny red ( very bright almost neon red ) caterpillars, about 2mm long and less than 1mm wide they seem to move quite quick as well , seemed to be surrounding the aphids
does anyone know... what are the red ones? tiny young hoverfly larvae?, or mini ladybird larvae? , or what?
are they good or bad on the plant, ive never seen them before
No photo though as ive broken the camera again
