Insect shorties

Short clips of insects doing everyday things. On this page:

• Beneficials (parasitoids)
• Beneficials (predators)
• Caterpillars
• Pests in plague proportions

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Beneficials (parasitoids)

Watch the moment a parasitoid wasp lays its egg into an aphid

See a parasitoid emerging from the parasitised aphid ‘mummy’

Beneficials (predators)

Hoverfly larva searches for and successfully finds an aphid snack

Minute two spotted ladybird adult and larva munching on aphids

Green lacewing larva sucking on a mealybug

Caterpillars

Armyworm on barley

How much can a looper eat?

Caterpillar movement: ‘slinking’ (helicoverpa) versus ‘looping’ (looper)

Webbing in action (beet webworm)

Plague proportions

Locust nymphs in a sorghum crop

Rutherglen bug nymphs making the ground ‘crawl’