I gots ladybug pupa on my guava tree!!!

Thanks to Kyle Meyer for tipping me off on what they are- I have a fear of anything with an exoskeleton (except for butterflies, dragonflies, ladybugs, and bees, to some extent) and probably would've allowed my parents to spray soapy water on them and wash 'em out. Here they are!


Well, thats only one of them, but multiply by two on one cute little leaf =) They will be ready to emerge in about a week!

We also have ladybug larvae in lots of different stages and ladybug eggs on a leaf or two. I'm really excited to watch the eggs hatch. How exciting! ... I'm getting excited over ladybugs. Typical =)

BUTBUTBUT some other insect has also chosen my guava tree to host its young. The eggs are everywhere! I'm scared that its some tree-destroying insect or a threatening species to Southern California. Can anyone help me identify?

omgosh this picture gives me the absolute heebie jeebies. that yellow egg looks alot like a lady bug egg, but those insects dont look anything like a ladybug larvae at any stage. seems like there is a larvae right in the midst of them, and seems like those little white things are eggs.. eggs that have been hatched out of?

I noticed one climbing over my hand after these pictures and stifled the 'scream and run' instinct to take a picture. My guava tree BETTER love me!



this one had lost one of its fake back *antenna*

HALP!!!