http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/06/18/macro-photography-lady-beetle-larva en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>Around my garden, there is no greater hero than the larva of the lady beetle. They patrol my garden and eat the nasty aphids that otherwise would suck the life from my plants, especially my precious tomatoes.</p> <p>Today, I got some good shots of one crawling around on a <em>Spirea japonica</em> &#8216;Little Princess.&#8217; For perspective, the larva is the size of a large grain of rice.</p> <div class="photo"> <img src="http://community.moertel.com/~thor/pix/20060618/lady-bettle-larva-upside-down-small.jpg" title="lady beetle larva" alt="lady beetle larva" /> </div> <p>Lady-beetle larva</p> <div class="photo"> <img src="http://community.moertel.com/~thor/pix/20060618/lady-bettle-larva-upside-down-close.jpg" title="lady beetle larva close-up" alt="lady beetle larva close-up" /> </div> <p>Ain&#8217;t she cute?</p> Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:44:00 -0400 urn:uuid:0211e7c9e6d20d4cc013fb8cd1035764 Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/06/18/macro-photography-lady-beetle-larva photography http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/70