Green Aphids in Lentils

[just_wondering]

In talking to a neighbour at a combine clinic this A.M. he mentioned that his agrologist had recomened he spray his lentils with Matadore due to green aphids.
What does anybody know?
I talked with the Sask provincial bug specialist but I was wondering about other experiences.
we have never sprayed for them in lentils before but have in yellow peas.

All these $5.00 aplications are starting to add up!

[SASKFARMER3]

We have guys spraying canola now and its been blooming for three weeks. Most is shutting down. Simply the winners are going to be supplyers. Not the farmers.

[just_wondering]

Talked with a guy from Sask-Can this Am he advised to hold tight on spraying if most pods are formed if all that's left is the tops leave it and not enough damage will be done to justify the cost of spraying and the damage to the predator populations
So from what I know now we have stopped spraying

[boarderbloke]

anybody seen a greyish bug, about 3/8" long, sorta tapered at each end, with a couple orange dots on each side?? i have some in my peas. anybody have a name for it??

[railway]

Boarder
sounds like you've got ladybug larvae
These little critters chow down on aphids, so if you've got a lot of aphids, ladybugs are likely what you are seeing.

[just_wondering]

good call railway my bug guy called them little alligators, and if anybodies got them they have to take the populations into account on weather or not to spray as these larvae will be eating your aphids.

[boarderbloke]

thanks railway/j_w, did a google image search and sure enough, ladybug lava. don't think the aphid numbers are that high but there are plenty of these lava, and also now plenty of black birds feeding on them. pea pods are big an' plump, crop starting to mature and will be ready to swath or spray in two weeks.