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tacomagardener Tacoma, WA Aug 19, 2018

My plum tree was covered in these. Some attached to the fruit, others to the leaves.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 20, 2018

These are empty pupal 'skins' of a lady bird beetle, likely the Asian multi-colored lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis) - see http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/multicolored_asian_lady_beetle.htm

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tacomagardener Tacoma, WA Aug 20, 2018

I couldn't find it in our list of Western Washington beetles. And was wondering why they were all over the fruit I thought ladybugs just ate aphids

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 20, 2018

"And was wondering why they were all over the fruit I thought ladybugs just ate aphids."

The fact that they were on the fruit does not mean that they were eating/harming it in any way. The larvae were there because that's where their prey (aphids, etc.) were, and when they were fully grown they pupated where they were at the time.

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tacomagardener Tacoma, WA Aug 26, 2018

thank you for the explanation!

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