Hover fly larvae eat aphids

[j-s.w]

The moral of this story is: If you have roses in your garden, make sure you make your garden as attractive to Ladybird’s and Hoverflies as possible

[Ealsante]

I used to find hoverflies adorable. Now I know they're big damn heroes too!

[BlackThyme]

Hi, i thought i found a hoverfly larvae, it was on a cabbage plant, eating aphids. and it looked like a cabbage white butterfly larvae except it was eating an aphid and moved quicker than a caterpillar, it was the same colour green. i'm in Dandenong VIC. did i misidentify? i was stoaked because lady beetles and their larvae fall off cabbages, they cannot seem to be able to traverse the smooth skin of a cabbage plant, and i always get aphids on them and nothing seemed to control them on my cabbages and cauliflowers. thanks for your time. i only found you via an email from SGA about a masterclass you are giving soon, unfortunately, i cannot afford to come, but now i've found your YouTube, i'll be watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[mcgritty]

Hoverflies and Ladybugs have become my friends. Got a couple dragonflies too 😊❤

[RayNardGaming-wz]

poor cute aphid nymphs he is so friendly

[andnowi]

We had a heavy aphid infestation on our sweet peas. We spent hours every day looking at the sweet peas, as they were trained up the sides of our garden seating. I decided reluctantly to sacrifice the sweet peas in hopes of attracting ladybirds, but no ladybirds came that I noticed, only hoverflies. Lots of hoverflies. It was looking very bad for the sweet peas. Then in a mere two days the aphids vanished, replaced by their empty husks. Strangely I hadn't seen any hoverfly larvae, so I'm utterly perplexed. I wondered if the sweet peas themselves had killed the aphids. Anyway, the sweet peas recovered almost immediately. So next year we are going to grow sweet peas all up one side of the house. Anyone any idea what most likely happened to our aphids??