What eats aphids?

Answer 1

Caterpillars are vegetarians, they only eat plant material.
The larva of ladybugs, however, are voracious devourers of aphids.

Adult ladybugs and lacewings also eat aphids.

Unlike most though, the Harvester caterpillar
feeds solely on aphids. the adults,
of the hairstreak family, do not eat at all.

Answer 2

Vegetation that has accessible sap is the type of plants that aphids eat. The insects in question (Aphidoidea superfamily) like the phloem sap which brings mineral-laden water from the soil, through the roots, throughout the interior. But they also will feed upon the xylem sap, which circulates photosynthetic products.

Answer 3

Broad-leaved, deciduous herbs and woodies are the kinds of plants which aphids eat. The insects in question (Aphidoideasuperfamily) realize their life cycles by feeding upon the internal, life-supporting saps accessed by piercing foliage which is green enough to be healthily nutritious and wide enough to support groups of feeders.

Answer 4

Crops and woodies are the aphid's favorite edible plants. Favored herbaceous foods include beans, beets, bok choy, carrots, chard, corn, cucumbers, kale, lettuce, melon, mustards, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, spinach, squashes, and tomatoes. Preferred shrubs and trees range from apple, ash, cedar, citrus, fir, hawthorn, pear, pine, plum, spruce, and tulip trees to cotoneaster, crape myrtle, hackberry, milkweed, oleander, pyracantha, and rose.

Answer 5

Amphibians, arachnids, birds, mammals and reptiles are predators that eat aphids. Bullfrogs, skunks, and smooth soft-shelled turtles respectively number among amphibian, mammalian and reptilian predators of aphids while avian predators include chickadees, hummingbirds, titmice and warblers. Aphid-eating mites and Spiders represent arachnid predators of aphids while bald-faced hornets, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, earwigs, green lacewings, hoverfly larvae, ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, predatory braconid and chalcid wasps, syrphid flies, and yellow jackets serve as insect predators of aphids.

Answer 6

No, aphids do not eat flowers. The insects in question (Aphidoidea family) pierce plant tissue in their search for such inner fluids as plant sap. They therefore will attack such flowering plants as roses, not because of their flowers, but for the sap in their foliage.

Answer 7

No, aphids do not eat flowers. But the insect in question (Aphidoidea family) will attack such flowering plants as roses because of the sap in the foliage.