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Adonia is a genus of ladybird (Coccinellidae). The species vary greatly in colouring and the number of spots, but all eat aphids.
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Aphidecta is a genus of ladybird (Coccinellidae) ranging from three to five millimetres in length, and living con conifer trees where it eats aphids.
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Chalcidoidea is a super-family of insects of the sub order Apocrita, order Hymenoptera. They are tiny, a few millimetres long and the larvae are parasitic in various insects including aphids, making them an important source of natural pest control.
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Chilocorus is a genus of ladybird (Coccinellidae). They feed on aphids and scale insects.
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Coccidula is a genus of small (about three millimetres in length) ladybird (Coccinellidae). They are relatively long, with almost parallel sides and live on marsh and aquatic plants where they feed on aphids.
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Exochomus is the Four Spot Ladybird genus of ladybird (Coccinellidae). They range from three to five millimetres in length, and frequent conifers and hawthorn and eat aphids and scale insects.
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Formicoidea is the ant super-family of insects of the sub-order Apocrita, order Hymenoptera. Ants are small or medium sized, mostly yellow, brownish, brownish-black or black in colour and with angled antennae of up to fifteen segments. The petiole between the thorax and abdomen is either a knot-like single segment, or bearing a vertical scale, or two-segmented. Ants live communally, the nest being founded by the female who either finds her own site or penetrates a nest of some other ants - either of her own species or another. An ant nest contains three castes: one or more queens; workers; and at certain periods winged males. The queen ant is originally winged, but after the mating flight sheds her wings. The workers are either all identical, or occur in several forms - large headed worker ants are popularly known as 'soldier ants'. Ants are omnivorous and often cultivate aphids for their secretions.
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Ladybird is the popular name for beetles of the family Coccinellidae. There are many species, over forty in Britain alone, and they vary in colouration from yellow to black. Most are predacious, feeding on plant-sucking insects, especially aphids. When in danger they feign death and may release a foul smelling fluid from an opening between their femur and tibia.
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Laricobius is a formerly rare, now widespread tiny beetle of the family Derodontidae. The larvae and the adults are voracious predators of the woolly aphids on fir trees, and have been introduced into America as a biological control agent.
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Lebia is a genus of beetles of the ground beetle family, Carabidae, with perhaps five species occurring in Britain, but they are rare. They live chiefly in shrubs and trees where the adults catch insect larvae and aphids in the evening, and the larvae are parasites of the leaf-beetle pupae.
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