Which is why you want a lot of ladybugs around, because they can eat aphids faster than I can eat potato chips.
For example by encouraging Ladybirds (ladybugs) into the garden as they eat aphids (greenfly).
"They like to eat aphids and mites," he said.
Bear in mind that they do eat aphids and young slugs, as well as your prize dahlias.
It is a predator of other insects, eating aphids as both a larva and imago (adult).
Dr. Burke said they are quite useful to suburban homeowners with flower and vegetable gardens since the lizards eat aphids.
I once ordered a big bag of ladybugs to eat aphids.
They also enjoy eating aphids and other small, slow-moving creatures.
It also eats aphids and sugary solutions secreted by Gynoxys.
They eat dead insects (although they sometimes eat live aphids), sometimes taking them from spider webs.