This is not an insect of the week!

Order Opiliones (Harvestmen)
aka: Daddy Long Legs

With two of my camera experiments completed, here at the Gardiner Lab we have been busy watching hours of video focused on lady beetle egg masses, eagerly waiting to see what would appear in the screen and start munching on the egg masses. We have been surprised to find that the top predator, in the video we have watched, has been Harvestmen. This was unexpected, and we still have tons of video to watch!

I have yet to find any literature that discusses harvest men as a predator of lady beetle eggs. They primarily prey on small insects, but they also scavenge, and feed on plant material.