CLOSED: An Egg With Legs????

North Las Vegas, NV(Zone 9a)

Look what I got for my Birthday!!! An USB Digital Microscope with 2 mega-pixel
10x-50x Optical, 200x Digital Magnification.
Can't promise no out of focus images, but a definite improvement over a cell
phone camera. I'm so excited and have lots of questions about identifications.

I'm just learning and changing sizes and formats was hard enough, but finding them again is really frustrating!!

Well, here goes---Hope this works!
Yeah--I wonder if the first 4 insects are the same species? Check out the white
"Lion" actually throwing the tiny Aphid around!! Is that his molted coat in the 4th pic? I'm not sure about the last one. I think I'm pointing out that weird tiny white thin bug. My file folder isn't showing the photos, just names.
So, what do you think? They were all on my Bell Pepper plants. The white fuzzy guys are all over the place now because I've been avoiding harming them. Am I right to do so? They're keeping up pretty good with controlling the Aphids, but can they become harmful to my plants?
Thanks

Diane

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Minot, ND

The first image appears to be a parasitized/mummified aphid, the fuzzy/bumpy white critter in images 2-4 appears to be a larva of a lady beetle in the genus Scymnus (see http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/lady_beetles05.jpg for an example), they are voracious predators on small soft-bodied insects. The skinny white object in the last image appears to be the shed 'skin' of a young aphid.

North Las Vegas, NV(Zone 9a)

Thanks Flapdoodle,
That's my buddy for sure. I knew he was a good guy, well he eats aphids--duh!

Do you happen to have information about the total life cycle of the Lady Beetle? I heard growing up that the Lady Beetle larva was a hideous looking thing.. This guy is cute.
Thanks , Diane

Is this the mosquito that can carry the West Nile virus? Living in the desert, I wasn't sure it was a mosquito, but lots have turned up positive here.

Looked what bloomed last night at 1 am--one night only. "Echinopsis Oxygona" I rescued it last winter.

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Minot, ND

See http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/lady_beetles.htm for details on the life cycle of lady beetles. The insect in your first image is a rather dead and dismembered fly, but it is not a mosquito...

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