Wow, those leaf miners waste no time! While harvesting for the first salad of the year, found a ton of their eggs throughout the chard. Removed all that I could find, either by harvesting the leaf or in other cases by snipping off that teeny part of the leaf.
On one of the egg batches, there was a teeny tiny red/orange beetle-ish looking insect hanging out right on top of the eggs. Just hanging out there, even when I put that part of the leaf into a container to look at. After a few minutes came off the eggs to run around the container. But hmmm, wonder if the red one might be eating the eggs? Should I put him/her back into the patch?
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