I recently learned it’s the larvae (little black and orange alligator looking things) that do most of the eating. We ordered ladybugs this year, most of them flew away, but they left little orange oval eggs on the back of a few leaves. When the larvae hatched, they demolished the aphids.

Video I’ve never found again, nerdy fat kid releases 500 ladybugs he ordered online. He opens the can, points it down, and they just go FLOMPH, hit the ground in mass. The look of disappointment is hilarious. Poor guy is just staring straight down at what I assume he expected would be a dramatic event. I expected a dramatic event!