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My leg brushed along a weed that was growing by my patio, but when I looked at it, it had a whole bunch of yellow bumps on it. I took a closer look, and they have legs... O.o
What could this be?

Those are aphids

Oops I forgot to say, I MIGHT have collected as many of them as I could, for studying and/or feeding to my drosera plants :3

trooperkris wrote:Oops I forgot to say, I MIGHT have collected as many of them as I could, for studying and/or feeding to my drosera plants :3

Yeah, don't do that lol. Even drosera are no match for these. I wouldn't risk it & get rid of them as soon as possible. If just one wanders off and lays eggs somewhere by your plants its gonna be a bad day.

I've fed aphids to my sundews in the past but after seeing that many aphids are born already pregnant, I decided against doing it any longer

Aphids have a very unique life cycle. During the spring and summer there are only femaleswho give live birth after two weeks after being born. in autumn males and females are born with wings who mate and fly off to find new places to lay eggs that overwinter and form new colonies in spring. Warning, aphids can be small enough to walk amongst the dewy tentacles without being caught, but their predators such as lacewing larvae and lady beetles are easily caught so keepthem off sundews.

Those are oleander aphids. That weed must be oleander or milkweed since the aphid hades evolved to eat those toxic plants


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